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Her daughter should have done more to safe her own inheritance. Like, if you safe 800K Dollar in convincing your mother she is not romanced by Brad Pitt, I woul
by ralfd 2y ago
Her daughter should have done more to safe her own inheritance. Like, if you safe 800K Dollar in convincing your mother she is not romanced by Brad Pitt, I would handle that as a full time job!
That said this is increasingly common and especially elder people can be easily scammed with AI.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1df081i/my_mother_and_elon_musk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1df081i/my_mother_an...
> Reading through all of this, apparently lots of elderly people having "relationships" with celebrities. Adding my mother to the mix. She's been corresponding with "Elon Musk" for at least six months. She's not even that old, she's only 67...but extremely gullible.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/15sls1v/my_dad_thinks_elon_musk_is_texting_him_and_has/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/15sls1v/my_dad_think...
> My Dad thinks Elon Musk is texting him and has lost over $10K - Help!
I don’t know how we can deal with that in the future. Financial regulation to make it easier that people at risk have more banking safe guards and their children/spouses can supervise accounts better? Or hope it fixes itself when the 4Chan generation who grew up with Nigerian prince scams replaces boomers?