> Sadly, older people maybe just grew up in a more trusting US society, and are therefore more trusting themselves > It sounds ludicrous to you or I but their

> Sadly, older people maybe just grew up in a more trusting US society, and are therefore more trusting themselves > It sounds ludicrous to you or I but their minds are from a different era. “Telephone calls are an expensive, special thing” their 1950s mind thinks This is the key—grew up in a world where people often weren't around their phone to answer it immediately (the older ones, maybe a world in which not everyone even had a phone!) and it cost money to make long distance calls, so mass-call scams had trouble being profitable. I mean, hell, that's only not been the state of things for a relatively short time. I was still paying connection and per-minute fees for long distance calls until at least the mid '00s. I think it's seriously worth considering whether we need some more cost-friction on long distance connections. That'd be a pretty elegant way to curb this, since nobody seems willing to just force the telecoms to fix it directly.