How Do You Stop Your Boomer Parents From Falling For Facebook Scams?!

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

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0:00.0	The Bert Show.
0:01.3	Has anybody in here ever fallen for an online scam or a text scam or an email scam?
0:06.8	I feel like right after college, you don't know that people are trying to scam you.
0:10.5	So when USPS texts you saying your package is on the way and you're like, I probably ordered something while I was drunk.
0:15.8	Yeah, you're probably clicking on the link.
0:17.8	Instagram got me once.
0:19.1	That's right.
0:19.9	Yeah, it was like it made it seem as if one of my friends were asking me to vote for
0:24.7	something and I clicked on it to vote and then the next thing I know they had complete
0:27.8	control of my Instagram.
0:28.8	No.
0:29.7	I remember.
0:30.3	I forgot about that.
0:30.9	Yeah.
0:31.3	How long did they, and you ended up paying to get it back, right? Yeah, I think initially they were trying to get like $500 out of me or something like that.
0:40.9	And I tried to fight it and get it back without paying them for like two weeks, I want to say.
0:45.4	It was a long time.
0:46.3	And then it got to the point where they were doing so much that they was like,
0:49.3	I'll give me a hundred.
0:49.9	I'll give it back.
0:50.4	I say say bet. So, I mean, I feel like scams too, and I'm constantly getting the text messages to my phone.
0:58.5	It used to be about the package, right?
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