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  • GiliellGiliell@mastodon.social
    Apr 14, 2025, 10:49 AM

    @nixCraft Thi is me. One day my mum called because my dad had been talking to "somebody from Microsoft". I think the only thing that saved him was his inability to do what they wanted him to do.

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  • Viral Obscurityviralobscurity@mstdn.social
    Apr 14, 2025, 11:54 AM

    @nixCraft I hear that

    I've had a few calls from my mother about "Microsoft tech support" calls or emails but luckily she knows not to believe them and hangs up because she uses a Mac and my brother, who picks up most of the tech issues because he lives closer, refuses to allow any MS products in her house

    His approach is to never trust anything associated with MS and has told her that if the word Microsoft is mentioned, don't go any further

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  • Tenderizertenderizer@mastodon.social
    Apr 14, 2025, 12:17 PM

    @nixCraft Given the amount older generations have had to learn about computers, and how little the younger generations have had to learn ...

    Perhaps it's the parents giving both talks these days.

    Although for scams that might be a different matter.

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  • Leelooleeloo@techhub.social
    Apr 14, 2025, 12:36 PM

    @tenderizer @nixCraft
    The image didn't load for me at first, so when I saw your "both talks", I thought "yeah, both to the children and grand parents".

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  • Viral Obscurityviralobscurity@mstdn.social
    Apr 14, 2025, 12:55 PM

    @tenderizer @nixCraft for the younger generation, it's usually a talk about not over sharing or giving away personal information just because somewhere wants it

    For the older generation, it's a talk about not trusting random people saying they want to help

    I think only late gen x / early millennials get the middle ground by being sceptical/cynical about everything

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  • Rachel GreenhamStrangeNoises@mastodon.social
    Apr 14, 2025, 12:52 PM

    @nixCraft i love that it's the same chair. (or meant to be anyway: continuity error on the number of back pieces.)

    A saying I heard once and liked: “Remember, as you’re losing patience trying to explain how to use a computer to your parents, who taught you how to use a toilet.”

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  • BadgardenerBadgardener@mountains.social
    Apr 14, 2025, 6:31 PM

    @nixCraft

    My octogenarian neighbour stopped to talk to us in the street today, and described something which had happened to her online this morning: she'd had a tracking email from the designated courier for a parcel she was expecting - but when she clicked on the link, a pop-up appeared telling her that for a very small sum of money, she could get 'enhanced' tracking, and all she needed to give them was every piece of personal information in her possession.

    She immediately spotted the scam and shut it down; I didn't have the heart to tell her it was probably genuinely from the courier, but yes - still a scam.

    There's a reason these people have lived that long. They're not daft, on the whole.

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  • Danny Boling ☮️IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social
    Apr 14, 2025, 7:11 PM

    @nixCraft

    A friend fell for the MS Tech Support ruze and actually called them and, after they insisted, installed remote control software on his computer "because that's what the support people said to do." :eyeroll: And now he complains because he thinks "someone has hacked into my computer."

    My initial response: Telling him to never send me an email!

    These scams exist because they often work. And just "having the talk" isn't enough. You have to constantly monitor everything they do online.

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  • SalvoSalvo@mastodon.social
    Apr 14, 2025, 10:16 PM

    @nixCraft my father always taught me “Beleive Half of What You See and None of What You Hear”.

    That guidance has stood me well in the Disinformation Age.

    I really wish he had taken his own advice.

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