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Are you building features for phishers?(bradleyjkemp.dev) |
And don't use the number from the email.
Phone calls and text messages are the ones I have no control whatsoever, so I try to avoid them at all cost, not just for security but they are irritating most of the times. I stopped voice few years back - https://no.phone.wtf
My kids have just started to get in to Roblox, not bought anything yet but I expect it'll happen soon enough.
Now that you mention it, I noticed that I do this routinely. How do I handle "reset password" situation? I don't remember if the services I have used offer other means of going to the password reset link.
You'll never get 100% of people remembering that advice 100% of the time. So how do you mitigate the situation when they forget?
You get people calling with "your son is in jail and you must buy these gift cards at Target" and it works some of the time.
For your example, the fraudster could say "yes, your account is being targeted by criminals, that's why I'm calling you". The warning inadvertently backs up their story
If their intelligence is that low at that point the criminals can skip all these hoops and directly ask them for their credit card numbers saying they are from the bank and they need to verify them.
The person might have been following her around for a while and some of her rare merchandizes had started attracting unwanted attention. She says she had been playing with the person for a while, and she missed the link that was NOT Roblox.
Mate, I've met lawyers who sent millions to Nigeria. They're not low intelligence. They're very smart people.
Who were very desperate and clung to a highly irrational hope because they really needed one. Also, they often believed that it couldn't be a scam, because they were intelligent, and only dumb people get scammed. Quod Erat Demostrandum...
Now, were they low wisdom? Definitely.
The old joke that "intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad", is still very true.
Plenty of intelligent people do very dumb things all the time. Nexium, Scientology, a guru's cult who may or may not commit biological attacks at local salad bars. All have intelligent people involved.
After all, they couldn't have cultured their salmonella if they didn't.
It's not about having low intelligence. It's about being caught off guard. Not everyone is in a big city and have constant contact with fraudsters. Some people are in small towns where they trust everyone and when they receive a call from the supermarket or some other place they usually just trust them too. So, they are not attempting to find all the flaws in their reasoning, they may just think that the wording was a bit off, but an understandable mistake and continue the conversation.
Yeah, I grew up in a small town. Guess what? We didn't trust anyone we didn't already know and trust. Strangers are danger until they prove otherwise. That goes triple on the Internet.
We are seeing young people that can't work around Word/Excel (sure, or their cloud equivalent) to do basic tasks like creating a table or basic formatting
Major /s