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4x that if you include donating to Trump.

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“The most commonly reported fraud among older adults last year was tech support scams, in which criminals pose over the phone as technical or customer service representatives. In one such scam authorities say is rising in popularity, criminals impersonate technology, banking and government officials to convince victims that foreign hackers have infiltrated their bank accounts and instruct them that to protect their money they should move it to a new account — one secretly controlled by the scammers.”

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I got my dad to watch Kitboga

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NotACult

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I can believe it…whenever I visit my father in laws house, who is 82, he gets a phone call like every 10 minutes, and it’s almost always one of these.

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You should get him a call blocker. If TrueCall exist in your part of the world I can highly recommend them. They have a few profiles available from mostly open to absolutely locked down with a whitelist.

Edit: https://www.truecall.co.uk/ Might be UK-only. Have a look anyway as it’ll give you some idea of what can be done.

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Scammer Payback and Jim Browning are other great heroes doing the same.

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Man, I’ve been working in the wrong industry

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