The enshittification continues…
It is hard to defend his behavior, certainly. But I think I’m coming to grips with the toll aging takes on people. The man who raised me was no idiot. But this frail, lonely, isolated person is not who he used to be.
There’s a reason these scams target who they target.
“Welcome to our enhanced privacy features! Please start by giving us your e-mail or by logging in with your Google or Facebook account.”
Bitch, those are the exact things I’m trying to keep my information away from. And, no, I don’t trust Mozilla as far as I can throw them, either.
OP here. This is part of my issue with this whole situation. He’s not a dumb guy. He knows better. Or knew better. Always been good with money, always had a cynical view of any institution (correctly, as it turns out). In addition to figuring out how to get him out of this I need to come to grips with the fact he’s not the same man who I knew.
Appreciate this. Seems right on the money.
He did mention specifically she was “oriental” as if it was some kind of check in the “not a scam” column.
Not sure the link there… Is it a known thing that old men have a weak spot for women of Asian heritage?
I think this is part of the problem. He doesn’t have a strong social circle and most of what it had been had been her friends, now mostly lost. He’s still pretty healthy but has other life situations keeping him trapped in place. Figuring out how to get him out of the house might be a good next step, once we can break him of this.
If only your clarity of thought could be conveyed effectively to him.
My recently widowed father (72) is planning a trip across the country to meet a woman who he claims called him by accident and with whom he has since built a romantic (remote) relationship. Here’s what he’s shared with me:
This is obviously a scam, right? But, without there being an ask for money I can’t figure out the angle and haven’t been able to convince him to disengage.
It is either going to be an ask for money to help her overseas family or a “can’t lose” investment in her company. I’m guessing she’ll back out of the travel plans last minute so they never meet OR he’s going go there and have his organs harvested.
Does anyone recognize this scam? What should we expect next? Has anyone else successfully talked their elderly loved ones out of one of these?
NYT reporter saying what every worker dealing with this shit already knows.
When teaching people how to spot AI images.
I’m smiling ear to ear over here. Lovely story.
I see your nostalgia and raise you this: