A panicked message posing as one of your children would be hard to ignore – let alone if it used their real voice – which is why I found a two-second solution
My friend, a smart, tech-savvy education professional, told me, a little shamefacedly, that she had recently been scammed. Only for the quick thinking of a bank official was it obstructed and reversed in time. Another couple of hours and all would have been lost.
She is a woman who keeps up with reports of banking fraud, who diligently does her accounts, never invests in anything weird and wouldn’t know a bitcoin if it, well, bit her. But she has one huge weakness. It’s one many of us share: our children.
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