Key word "getting" to the point and if your not trained to spot these issues it would be easy for a grandmother to send someone 10 grand out of the thought their grandson was in danger.
Now, add phone number spoofing to that and old people are getting scammed in the tens of thousands, sadly.
I mean some people are just walking targets (like that recent divorcee that gave $800k to "Brad Pitt in hospital" LOL) and some people are just snakey fucks who prey exclusively on the vulnerable, but I think we're rapidly moving towards a place where the line between fake and real practically evaporates before our eyes. I feel like we're moving toward that Futurama film where the scammers scam the world government out of everything
The thing is a senior citizen may be able to be independent in terms of self-care and daily living yet woefully unequipped to deal with this sort of thing. I think what we need is an educational/informational campaign to alert people to the methods of these scammers and how to detect and defeat them. Most of the preventative measures are really simple but you need to know what to watch out for first.
Back in the old days before cell phones, or caller id, even, whenever my friend was travelling and he wanted to let his mother know he arrived safe, he would call her collect and then ask to speak to himself. She would know who it was, but then she would decline the call so there would be no charge. The expert on the radio I was talking about earlier suggested that family members have some kind of passphrase.
s on the back end long before any blackmail money comes through.
Young boys: there's a reason they call them them young, dumb, and full of cum. That kind of thing is really sad, and as I said, everyone needs better info and more education on this stuff, particularly parents.Everyone is woefully unequipped to deal with this sort of thing. We've already had cases in the US and EU where an underaged boy gets catfished into trading nudes with who he thinks is a hot girl, then next thing you know he's getting blackmailed for his parents bank account info with his own nude content. It has led to suicide. And I'm sure the same people doing that shit are selling it out to
But now you can fake a live video call with AI tools and filters.
- Remember when old-man were getting scammed in porn-site,s with video calls in a loop?
No. But it's not surprising.
