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[–] Warl0k3 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I despise them as much as the next queer liberal but it isn't just the vile boomers falling for this. Keep an eye on your grandparents, maybe sit down and explain the more common scams and tell them to call you if they get something weird. No banking info over phones, etc.

[–] JusticeForPorygon 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why do you kids just give up at the first sign of adversity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hang on, apparently I’m supposed to use this shovel to talk to corpses. “Hi Grandma!”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Ouiiji board: We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty

[–] Warl0k3 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Did I stutter? Protecting your family is protecting your family, now fetch the jumper cables and a lightning rod, we've got some identity theft to thwart.

[–] HKPiax 3 points 3 months ago

You failed to protect them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Get your grandparents to use a password manager. It won't allow them to fill in their credentials on a malicious website

[–] tourist 13 points 3 months ago

those goddamn fucking fake UPS emails

I have never used UPS in my fucking life

every day another unread 19 in the spam folder

like, I didn't click the shady link the first 4812 times

Why would I click it on the 4813rd email?

[–] wowwoweowza 4 points 3 months ago

You’ll notice for my screenshot, I didn’t even click on it.

I feel sorry for anyone who falls for one of those.