Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What a week – chaos at OpenAI plus the rise of scam innovation. Your voice, all over the Internet, has been captured and is being used to scam your mother out of her savings by calling her begging for help with your voice, saying “Mom, Mom, Mom” in a convincing enough way for her to part with her cash. Older adults.

Medicare 75

Medicare 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

All calls are recorded in the log, so you'll never miss a thing, If callers are not contacts, but not necessarily nuisance calls, Genie talks to them and either blocks, or passes the call to you, along with their name and reason for calling. category tags: AI and machine learning , Scams -- all types , senior living , AgeTech

Mental health 108

Mental health 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 24, 2018

How about a text message with a picture of the sender, someone you know, pitching a fund-raising and time-limited opportunity – in a category the recipient knows well. Naturally, there is new advice on avoiding scams via text messages on cell phones (charmingly called Smishing). Not just the weather scares -- how about scams and fraud?

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95

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It has become a source of entertainment in our home to string scam callers past the bot to the frenetic-sounding call center. And if all else fails, a phone call can mitigate uncertainty. For those few who still have landline phones, scammers make them ring. Or we just let the phone ring 3 times – bots have limited patience.

Medicare 80

Medicare 80