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.
OP has a family member who literally doesn't seem like they can learn at all.
Scamming sucks and even people who know better can fall victim. It's best if you can go after the scammer or limit your losses. But you have to balance individual responsibility in there somewhere. Yes, a functional government does its best to stop criminals, but if someone cannot learn from their mistakes, how does society fix that? Can there be a fix that?
@djsumdog @keira_reckons @Owl Just look up the names of these "companies" in your favorite search engine. I bet there are plenty of blogs, forums, subreddits, etc exposing such scams. I learned to do that when people send me job offers.
