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Scammers with a well prepared script calling or messaging age 65+ persons pretending to be their grandchild in need of bail money (which of course must be paid
by walrus01 4y ago
Scammers with a well prepared script calling or messaging age 65+ persons pretending to be their grandchild in need of bail money (which of course must be paid from a bitcoin ATM, or in itunes gift cards or similar) seem to be wildly successful these days.
I have a theory that some of this is due to large scale data leaks that have peoples' ages in a database field so some scammers are now in possession of name, phone number and ages for millions of elderly americans.
- moistly 4y agoOf course they are. Health details, too, because there have been leaks in healthcare, too, most recently in Oz. Also financial metrics: everyone’s game score was leaked by Equitax IIRC.