REMARKS
Personal experiences with tech-related scams and concerns for elderly relatives
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Council Member Yusef Salaam and Commissioner Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez share personal experiences with tech-related scams, highlighting the vulnerability of elderly individuals to such frauds. They discuss how even tech-savvy individuals can fall victim to sophisticated scams.
- Salaam mentions his mother's difficulty with smartphone pop-ups and scams
- Cortés-Vázquez shares how her tech-savvy mother's computer was compromised by a scammer
- The discussion emphasizes the need for awareness and education about evolving scam tactics
Yusef Salaam
1:09:00
Well, I'd just like to maybe start out by acknowledging the fact that this is a very serious issue.
1:09:08
Something that not only elders have encountered, I'm thinking about just my personal experience and how, you know, I've studied technology for years.
1:09:20
And every so often, somebody might send me an email, and they might say it's from a company that looks reputable or from your bank.
1:09:27
But I'm I'm so to speak savvy enough where I'm a look at the actual email address and realize, this is not from the bank.
1:09:39
This is not from a reputable company.
1:09:41
But I'm concerned because, you know, like, my mother is part of the elderly community.
1:09:47
Who's always calling me and saying, I don't know.
1:09:50
I tapped something on my phone and this the thing won't go away.
1:09:53
A lot of these tricks where there may be an x way up here or you might have to swipe or kill that particular program just to get out of it.
1:10:04
Wow.
1:10:05
This is this is really really something.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
1:10:09
Yeah.
1:10:09
I'm gonna share with you.
1:10:10
My mother's Yeah.
1:10:11
My mother's entire commute computer.
1:10:14
My mother is very tech savvy, unlike her daughter.
1:10:17
And and yet my mother's computer was compromised because someone called and said I have a program for
Yusef Salaam
1:10:24
you.
1:10:24
Wow.
