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Need to vent over scams and taking advantage of the vulnerable
Caregivers: Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) & Dementia | Last Active: Sep 8 8:21am | Replies (43)Comment receiving replies
@akela09, venting allowed. Sometimes it just helps to vent. These older discussions may offer some tips:
- Phone Scam Worries https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/phone-scam-worries/
- How do you protect from phishing emails, hoaxes and other scams?https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/iphones-ipads-and-other-scams/
- Facebook Safety Issue https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/facebook-safety-issue/
Reviewing these past discussions underlines how crafty and clever scam artists are. With AI (artifical intelligence) keeping the vulnerable safe gets harder and harder.
I was just reading this article today that can help us by paying attention to our emotions:
- Anatomy of a fraud: How scammers use our emotions against us https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fraud-manipulation-how-to-protect-yourself-9.7224976
But what safety measures can we put in place for people who don't have the cognitive ability to recognize the manipulation?
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@colleenyoung We need to protect our loved ones from all dangers, physical, emotional and financial. Take away credit card access. Cancel credit cards and debit cards, open new ones in your name only. Change passwords and log in information of all banking, retirement, healthcare, social security and investment accounts. Remove check book access. Open a limited access credit card with a hundred or so dollars in both names and give it to your loved one as a new credit card. Hide any written down log in information. If needed, change the mail to a post office box. That way the scammers may be able to get into his personal data but not the accounts. The only thing they really want is to steal money.
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@colleenyoung thank you, very helpful information