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we are going to see more boomers being scammed than ever thought possible

sfba.social nightdream (@nightdream@sfba.social)

A coworker just shared a couple of scary stories about how targeted scams have become. In one scam attempt, he received a phone call in his daughter's voice asking for help paying for a tow truck. He thought that didn't sound right, so he hung up and called her and she answered her phone nonchalan...

sadly my voice is readily found online so my own parents might be a target of this

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  • Feeling vindicated for my extremely paranoid brained decision to stay completely off social media for the past 15 years. Still have LinkedIn unfortunately bc you kinda need it.

    Still we're all just one google breach away from mayhem. I think I'll set up a code word with my family that only we know to give each other in case we need help.

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