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Keira (She/Her)

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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 ned protection too.

This is who I imagine when I imagine the user who needs protection.

We need regulation.

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Bob Tregilus

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@keira_reckons That is very sad.

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Jonathan Corbet

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@keira_reckons Honestly I don't think it's just a matter of "people who make poor decisions". We have created a world where thousands of predatory people have free rein to try to rip us off every day, and some of them are good at it. I'm pretty aware of such things (I think), but it still feels like it's only a matter of time until I have a bad day and get scammed somehow.
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