This is an incredibly important article and Charlotte Cowles (@charlottecowles) should be praised for writing it. Everybody should read it.
People laughing at her for getting scammed are missing the point, such as what the following picture does. thecut.com/author/charlot…
No, I wouldn't have gotten scammed like her. For one thing, I believe every phone call is a scam, either a criminal one, or some vendor trying to waste my time getting me to pay for things.
But I hate to think what I might fall victim to.
The only real defense is reading articles like the one above. Forget advice about what you should/shouldn't do told to you in a vacuum, instead, read about such stories about what sorts of scams actually happen in the real world.
For example, I can tell you that one CERTAIN way to tell if something is a scam is if they tell you not to tell anybody else (which you can trigger by telling them you are going to talk it over with somebody). A second person can easily see the scam you are falling for.
And that's what happened in the story above.
But telling people this without context doesn't help. They'll just forget about it. You need to educate them on the entirety of the story, not just one part.
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