Re:FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreig...
by Baeocystin on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:05PM
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This is a real and growing problem.
I have a few clients who are getting up in years. Talking to them one on one, they seem as sharp as ever. And yet both of them have recently called shady 800 numbers from obvious (to me) scam emails.
Thankfully both spoke to me before completing the money transfers, but it was close. As one of them was explaining to me after the fact, they got so startled by the (fake) expensive invoice, they felt overwhelmed, and just didn't even think to think that it might be a scammer.
I have a friend whose grandmother had severe dementia and sent 400k to scammers via wire transfer.
I have nightmares about my father, who has shown a tendency to put credit card numbers into pop-up windows. I found a coin miner on his laptop recently.