Who are these smooth-talking scammers that can guide a regular-ass user to jump through hoops in settings to install a malicious app?
Maybe I should ask them how they do it, because I cannot convince my family to download and use Signal. You know, the legit app from the official app store.
Exactly… there are a ton of older people falling for scams everyday. It’s all over the news. They manipulate people by pretending to be a love interest or a family member.
Yes exactly this. I try and explain a computer thing to someone and get ignored. That same person talks to some sales rep in the electronics store and comes away “ohh they said I need to buy super expensive antivirus, that’ll solve my issue with my screen resolution being too low”. 🤦
Who are these smooth-talking scammers that can guide a regular-ass user to jump through hoops in settings to install a malicious app?
Maybe I should ask them how they do it, because I cannot convince my family to download and use Signal. You know, the legit app from the official app store.
you would be extremely surprised. I think lemmy users fail to realize that not everyone has an IT job and is a sys admin.
Exactly… there are a ton of older people falling for scams everyday. It’s all over the news. They manipulate people by pretending to be a love interest or a family member.
People who can’t operate a computer will somehow become gods at following instructions if someone calls “from Microsoft”
Yes exactly this. I try and explain a computer thing to someone and get ignored. That same person talks to some sales rep in the electronics store and comes away “ohh they said I need to buy super expensive antivirus, that’ll solve my issue with my screen resolution being too low”. 🤦
You mean from ‘The Microsoft’