I have a relative who has had her credit card details stolen on so many occassions that we've lost count.
She clicks every email link. She signs up to "tarot of the day" and "spirit guide" text message scams. She buys things like the GeoCleanse. She's been in MLMs and near-cults. She's never met a grift she didn't fall for.
No amount of user training is ever going to get through to this person.
She'll lose her whole life savings before she takes a moment to imagine that an email from her own personal fairy guide *might* be some sort of scam.
It is tempting to say that if you're silly enough, you deserve what you get. But it isn't true. People who make poor decisions need protection too.
This is who I imagine when I imagine the user who needs protection.
We need regulation.
You cannot protect people from their own bad decisions without putting them in prison.
>petition Modi to start a Great Firewall of India under grounds of India's national reputation being at risk
>recolonize swathes of Africa using the liberation of native tribes from the Bantu menace as a casus belli, purging every call center in sight
>convince Duterte or whoever's in charge of the Philippines now that call center scammers are a menace equal to drug dealers and should be dealt with in the same manner
And like that you have eliminated 90% of the call scammer problem while making everyone happier, all without draconian nannyisms!
@Tadano @keira_reckons @djsumdog Just convince Modi to have a North Korean style intranet and only provide Internet access for government officials in India. That way, scammers won't find ways to bypass the firewall.
