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Don't let your elderly relatives fall for scams
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It's getting harder by the day. I recently got a phishing mail claiming to be microsoft's quarantine, sent by microsoft.com with no spam filter noticing anything. I only noticed after the fake login site loaded in less than a second, which the real one doesn't.
If that reached my grandparents, there's no way in hell the could have noticed. A proper password manager (that excludes the built-in shit browsers ship with) is a must.
I think you've just got tell them to be suspicious of everything, and to not be afraid of forwarding something dodgy-looking to you to check.
While I recommend a proper password manager to people my age I know that's too complex for some people, and using the built-in browser one is still way better than nothing!