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Posted By: The Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Re: Very dangerous scam (Sandi Moses)
Saturday, 6 August 2005, at 9:53 p.m.
> Nope. I have heard of people who really are that stupid and naive. Their
> family members are worried sick about them and talk to them until they run
> out of breath and get nowhere.
Such people, like pre-teens, should not have unsupervised access to bank accounts, telephones or computers.
> As long as there are people who are still
> on the turnip truck and haven't even fallen off yet, there will be a
> market for scammers from Nigeria and anywhere else.
But if the marks didn't have bank accounts or computers, the scammers would not find and fleece the mark.
> And of course there is
> another whole group of very gullible folks with IQ's is the 75 range or
> so, who function unnoticed in society but are such easy targets if they
> become known to scammers. The want so much to be independent that they
> often do not share with their family members "everything" they
> are up to.
If the family enables risky behavior by giving them access to money or computers, the family is enabling the con. Shame on the family. Privacy might have to go as well. Harsh - yes.
> And sometimes there are senior citizens who have had a series
> of mini strokes that nobody realizes yet. These people can sign up for
> everything and respond to everything and put themselves back onto every
> list as fast as family members try to get them off. There are just a whole
> bunch of non-larcenous people who are easy targets for scammers.
Telemarketing I can see. You can't take away the phone from seniors. But checking account access can be controlled. And 419'ers haven't discovered VOIP telemarketing - they're still using their Internet cafes to scam people by email. I was trying to restict my remarks to email 419 spam, but I can see there are a whole lot more worrisome things out there to protect the innocent from.
How about we try to breed the scammer gene out of the human race. :-)
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