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This is going to become so much worse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40942307 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40942307 Imagine old people getting p
by manishsharan 2y ago
This is going to become so much worse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40942307 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40942307
Imagine old people getting phone calls from frantic children. They won't know real from fake. Add tech like this to SIM forgery ..and we will devolve from a high trust society to a no trust society.
- meroes 2y agoHappened to my family. Grandfather got a call from a panicky grandchild that sounded like them. The teller at Western Union is the only reason it was stopped. The scary thing is this happened more than 5 years ago so it’s only getting worse.
- ryandrake 2y agoI think everyone with elderly parents already needs to have "the talk" with those parents, to help them to understand and deal with common (and less common) scams that prey on old people, what forms of communication to trust, what capabilities scammers have, and so on. All that is changing is the scammers' capabilities.