Lonely elderly people locator is a very desirable application for scammers. How are the users protected from potential dangers? After all being both old and lonely makes you even more vulnerable.
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Lonely elderly people locator is a very desirable application for scammers. How are the users protected from potential dangers? After all being both old and lonely makes you even more vulnerable.
Yes, you are right! This app was just an idea for the writeathon, not thought through til the end.
Maybe when sign up with ID or so would be more safe, but in the end we will never know.
I guess there is always bad to good 😔
Was thinking exactly this ..I can practically hear the MS support call scammers salivating.