Grandparents and Online Thieves


Grandchildren are the best people to bullet proof grandparents from online fraud because they know more about digital devices than mom and dad.
 

Parents are too busy building roads, attending to patients, pushing strollers, pulling huge bags full of hockey gear, doing laundry, answering office phones, driving trucks and school buses, to really understand phones and computers.
Online thugs capitalize on that.  Some senior citizens have cell phones because kids insisted.  They showed them the basics: making and taking calls, sending text messages and charging the device.  But they did not show them the dangers of pressing I ACCEPT or YES.

Grandchildren and grandparents have one thing in common: time.  Grandchildren might not want to spend time with grandparents because they are married to their digital devices 24/7.  However, they can kill two birds with one stone, play with their phones and teach grandma and grandpa how to identify scams and fraud at the same time.
Don’t talk to strangers, granddad.

They’ll tell you that you have won a lot of money which they want to put in your bank account.  What is your password?  That is the key to the theft.  The general rule is that people who don’t know you will never give you money.  They are on the internet to steal from you granddad.
Parents can help this interchange, by giving kids all kinds of incentives for spending time with grandparents.  Grandchildren should also show them how to use bigger fonts, if their eyesight is failing.  It’s not a one-way street.  Grandparents also have experience they can share with young ones.

By:  Nonqaba waka Msimang.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Elections And Political Bullies

Comfort Food As Regret Food

Organic Brussels Sprouts