The scams are insane, there are so many and they’re all good at convincing elderly people who are used to cold calls and call center talk.
Several people in my family have been hit and none of them are even that senile. They just got played for months before they actually executed the scam.
Worst one is they buy up helplines that are printed on old tech so when you call the “official” HP helpline on your decade old printer you get scammers pretending to be HP
I’m sure if I talked about how this technology is evil, and should be banned. I’ll have hordes of smuglords telling me that actually, scammers are sneaky geniuses that should be praised for outsmarting people.
Or we could…oh I don’t know. Not reward being a conniving snake?
Yeah the “scamming elderly people out of everything the own” industry is booming.
Just scrape all of a family’s public facing data and feed it in to a soulkiller algo then turn it against meemaw to steal her retirement.
The scams are insane, there are so many and they’re all good at convincing elderly people who are used to cold calls and call center talk.
Several people in my family have been hit and none of them are even that senile. They just got played for months before they actually executed the scam.
Worst one is they buy up helplines that are printed on old tech so when you call the “official” HP helpline on your decade old printer you get scammers pretending to be HP
I fucking despise this society.
I’m sure if I talked about how this technology is evil, and should be banned. I’ll have hordes of smuglords telling me that actually, scammers are sneaky geniuses that should be praised for outsmarting people.
Or we could…oh I don’t know. Not reward being a conniving snake?