• AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I think we all know a few people who aren’t computer-literate and who will always ask you to help them Google stuff or buy something from Amazon. Those are usually the main victims of this, they won’t know that they shouldn’t expect an “OS update” via SMS.

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        1 year ago

        No one that’s computer illiterate is going to read that article. And if they somehow did they’re definitely not going to click on the link buried in the middle of a paragraph, as a one word hyperlink, that leads to a different article that actually explains what the trojan is and how it gets on your phone.

        “Don’t click on links in random text messages” is absolutely a better way to explain it to them than expecting them to go through all of the above.