U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams

Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by baddox on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:54PM (#22176409)

> The victim must have severely diminished critical thinking ability for the scam to work.

I don't think that's true. It can happen to immigrants to a country who are entirely unaware of banking/legal/taxing practices, etc. who can be scammed into thinking a call is from a legitimate authority figure and who simply do not have enough cultural familiarity to know which things "don't seem right."

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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by jjeaff on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:10AM (#22177644)

I've heard of young, native, PhD candidates falling for these schemes as well.

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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by thisisnico on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:26AM (#22180766)

PhD doesn't equal to intelligence. Some of the Academics I've encountered I question how they've made it this far.

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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by blt on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:13PM (#22176507)

good point, edited.

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