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re: Has anyone had a widowed elderly parent that was catfished?
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:10 pm to Asleepinthecove
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:10 pm to Asleepinthecove
No, but I did have to talk my mom out of shooting down a drone over her house the other day. It was a realtor surveying the house next door.
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Posted on 6/7/26 at 2:14 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
I just posted this in a Tech thread on an unrelated subject, but it might help with blocking some of the sites used for a lot of these scams. It will help protect every device on their home network, but won't do anything if they drive away from home and are on 5G.
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Cloudflare offers a DNS service called 1.1.1.2 that blocks access to known malicious domains, providing an additional layer of security against malware. This service redirects users attempting to access harmful sites to a non-existent address, preventing any connection to those sites.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 2:53 pm to Asleepinthecove
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I had thoughts of letting him lose all his crap because I felt like he needed to be taught a lesson.
If, as you imply, he is in the early stages of dementia, there's no lesson to be taught. He's incapable of learning it.
Behavioral changes often precede memory issues. He is probably further along than you realize. Try not to be angry. It's not something he can help. At this point your only goal should be protecting him.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 2:54 pm to LemmyLives
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I just posted this in a Tech thread on an unrelated subject, but it might help with blocking some of the sites used for a lot of these scams. It will help protect every device on their home network, but won't do anything if they drive away from home and are on 5G. quote: Cloudflare offers a DNS service called 1.1.1.2 that blocks access to known malicious domains, providing an additional layer of security against malware. This service redirects users attempting to access harmful sites to a non-existent address, preventing any connection to those sites.
My son is tech savvy. He hasn’t finished his college degree but is in IT cyber security type major. He is the one that has been able to do most of the IT interventions. The problem is my father can just get off of WiFi and do whatever he wants. Thankfully, my father isn’t very tech savvy and needs my son to help with many things. He was able to remove all the communications apps on his phone and then remove the App Store where it can’t be searched to add more apps. The next step is to get my father on a family account to where everything he does has to be approved.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 2:56 pm to Asleepinthecove
My MIL had a friend call to see if she could stay with her a while because she had run out of money. The woman and her husband were wealthy socialites in their day but the husband had passed away. Fast forward, the woman supposedly met a doctor on line that was doing some mission work in Africa. He is suddenly kidnapped and he reaches out to his love for the ransom money so he isn’t tortured and killed. This woman liquidated her house and every asset she had and sent it to the supposed kidnappers. She was using her SS for her and her little dog to live in a cheap hotel with the small amount of cash she had left and was almost out. My MIL refused to let her stay with her because she was afraid these same kidnappers would come over to the US and get her and her friend if she was at her house. MIL refused to believe her friend was scammed, so as far as I know the friend still lives in a roach motel with her little dog. MIL now lives with us so we can watch over her.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:01 pm to Jim Rockford
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If, as you imply, he is in the early stages of dementia, there's no lesson to be taught. He's incapable of learning it. Behavioral changes often precede memory issues. He is probably further along than you realize. Try not to be angry. It's not something he can help. At this point your only goal should be protecting him.
It was a fleeting thought because of how stubborn he has become regarding many issues, including this issue with us trying to protect him. This is a man who has some generational wealth that he will never need and can change the lives of his grandkids but is more willing to support some stranger over giving Christmas gifts or birthday gifts to his grandkids, which is something my mother always did. That’s another reason why this event has been so frustrating from many aspects. My wife’s mother is also exhibiting some early stages of dementia and I often tell her not to get angry with her mother because of the disease and how it’s not her fault.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:05 pm to Ramblin Wreck
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My MIL had a friend call to see if she could stay with her a while because she had run out of money. The woman and her husband were wealthy socialites in their day but the husband had passed away. Fast forward, the woman supposedly met a doctor on line that was doing some mission work in Africa. He is suddenly kidnapped and he reaches out to his love for the ransom money so he isn’t tortured and killed. This woman liquidated her house and every asset she had and sent it to the supposed kidnappers. She was using her SS for her and her little dog to live in a cheap hotel with the small amount of cash she had left and was almost out. My MIL refused to let her stay with her because she was afraid these same kidnappers would come over to the US and get her and her friend if she was at her house. MIL refused to believe her friend was scammed, so as far as I know the friend still lives in a roach motel with her little dog. MIL now lives with us so we can watch over her.
The internet, mobile phones, and other technologies have been great for society but they have also opened up this whole other world of deception used to take advantage of the most vulnerable, the elderly.
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