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Originally Posted by maggie1
After reading this response, I had to ask myself "When was the last time that I needed to send my friends or grandkids money where a check wouldn't suffice?" Nope, can't think of one. Your comment that nothing is foolproof can't be more spot on. Unfortunately, we've had several people in TV who have been taken by people calling or sending an email, claiming to be from Amazon or sheriff's office, and yes, even someone posing as the person's grandchild and that they needed money to pay a bill, bail, or a fine. Then you know how this turns out, don't you? The person is out hundreds if not thousands because time to get this transaction taken care of was of the essence, which is where Venmo, PayPal, and Zelle comes into play. Once the person discovers they've been scammed, can they be reimbursed by any of the three? Good luck with that. I don't fear technology, but I can see where it can become harmful to some gullible ancient agers who are only wanting to do the right thing.
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When people do dumb things with ANYTHING they can get screwed. One person's lack of knowledge or gullibility is only their own fault for falling for a scam. OBVIOUSLY those "types" of folks who are so susceptible to falling for those scams have only themselves to blame but no one wants to admit THEY SCREWED UP so therefor they got scammed. For every person you "know" who has been scammed, there are probably 10,000,000 who have not been. Those scams you listed have been around for 20 years and discussed over and over ad naseum on TV, in newspapers (even the Daily Happy News had it) as well as in letters from AARP!. Sorry, people need to take responsibility for their own lack of knowledge. Some folks (Gullible Ancient Agers you mention) shouldn't be allowed to have ANYTHING BUT a checking account or in many cases not even a key to a car. Age isn't an excuse. My late 93yr old father used all those tools and never was scammed. Age isn't an excuse for getting scammed. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE is.
As for sending grandkids money, we do it often (as did my Father). Checks are so 1990's. Our granddaughter was on a cross country car tour with a friend to visit dozens of national parks. We wanted to send her some gas money and she had it in seconds. Sure we could have bought a prepaid credit card and mailed it to her if we knew where she would have been on any day but there was no mail at campsites in Yosemite or Grand Teton or ontop of Pikes Peak.
If one feels uneasy with modern technology then by all means stay away from it and also stay off of Facebook and the rest.