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Randy’s remedies: Oops! — I called the scam number
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AuthorTopicRandy McElveen
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john campbell
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Doug Reed
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rc primak
AskWoody_MVPIt only takes about three mouse clicks to downgrade the Free Trial to the Free Version.
That said, I would like to point out a risk in relying on an excellent free product from a company which also has paid versions. Case in point is the recent announcement from Macrium Reflect:
When not enough people pay for the upgrade to the Premium Editions, free products tend to go away. (BTW, Macrium Reflect is also abandoning its Lifetime License policy. It’s going over to an annual subscription and version number upgrade, starting on Jan. 1, 2024 or earlier. According to a gHacks article.) What is happening to Macrium Reflect can just as easily happen to Malwarebytes.
The Malwarebytes Premium program is an excellent security program and includes extra features not found in their free edition, FWIW. I use the free version and have done so for years.
-- rc primak
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wavy
AskWoody PlusI would care vastly more about a security program like Malwarebytes getting regular upgrades than Macrium . I d/led the latest Macrium just to have, very good program but every time I pay for a program I come to find some regret, maybe I am a jinx 🤨.
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Ben Myers
AskWoody PlusWell said, Randy. Needs to be said and repeated regularly to get through to the folks who trust too much. From what I have seen and experienced myself, seniors are still the biggest target for scams via POTS, mobile phone, texting, and email. The best protection against the scammers is what lies between ones ears, but it has to be exercised regularly.
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rc primak
AskWoody_MVPTrue in general, but social media and fintech app scams are rapidly increasing. These target primarily younger users, who have grown up with social media, phones and apps. So the message also applies to younger people who may not be wary enough of social media “friends”.
Charity appeals (I won’t name the brands, but there are apps and sites filled with these) are also not targeted primarily at older people. However, older people do fall for these scams in disproportionate numbers.
And crypto and NFT scams, perhaps the biggest scams out there today, do target younger people with newly earned or acquired money or investment gains. See Brian Livingston’s Public Defender article from today’s AskWoody Plus Newsletter. (It’s worth the subscription donation.)
-- rc primak
LoneWolf
AskWoody PlusQuestion: If the world has gotten stupid, then by the transitive property of mathematics (if a = b, and b = c, then a = c), don’t the people who have fallen for the scam = the world, and thus…
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