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MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

My grandma almost fell for this. Asked my mom what to do. Mom almost fell for it. After an hour of freaking out and preparing to go buy itunes gift cards or whatever it was, my mom thought to call me. “Oh my god are you ok what happened where are you etc”

Uhh I’m at my apartment, getting ready for work.

Everyone should talk to their parents and grandparents about this scam.

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Everyone should talk to their parents and grandparents about this scam

It would be pointless with my mother, anything involving technology developed after the 1980s goes were in one ear and out the other.

She never could work out the VCR, I never even bothered with a DVD player.

They need to invent a small TV that can be remotely controlled, so I don’t have to come around every time she wants to watch another episode of big bang theory, which apparently is the best show ever.

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- neblem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’d be great if popular show casts like BBT would do more PSAs.
  
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- nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  It would be pointless with my mother, anything involving technology developed after the 1980s goes were in one ear and out the other.
  
  I just told mine, “If someone calls claiming to be me and says that ‘I’ am in trouble and need money, ask them [about thing from my pre-Internet childhood], and if they get the answer wrong, hang up, because it’s someone else imitating my voice.” No tech understanding required.
  
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- Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Roku with a VPN_/Tunnel to your moms house. Use the roku app to control things remotely lmao
  
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- MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You could get a used pc for cheap, doesn’t need to be powerful. Set up her streaming services on there and then set it up so you can remote into it.
  
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