As an elderly person, how can you prevent telecommunications fraud?

Nowadays, there are endless online frauds. As an elderly person, it is even more necessary to improve the prevention of telecommunications fraud. Here are a few suggestions for your reference: 1. Download the anti-fraud app

First of all , the elderly need to understand what telecommunications fraud is. For example, some bad guys may pretend to be relatives or staff members and ask for money from the elderly over the phone or online. This behavior is called telecommunications fraud. Scams can cause huge financial losses and mental trauma to our family, so we must pay great attention to them. You also need to understand that the country has launched special anti-fraud software, which can effectively prevent fraud. These software will intercept fraudulent calls, identify fraudulent information, and protect our property security.

I suggest that the elderly must install these free anti-fraud software national anti-fraud apps. Finally, we need to know how to download and install anti-fraud software. During this process, you should carefully ask the young people at home questions that you don’t know, and don’t find it too troublesome. 2. Understand legal knowledge

Take a look at our Internet Cleanup Initiative, which aims to clean up some bad websites and applications. There are many cases of telecommunications fraud reported on Weibo and in the news. We need to understand them in order to protect the safety of ordinary people online. We must know that the online world is complex, with good and bad aspects, and we must learn to distinguish them. Therefore, this Operation Qingliang is very good and can protect everyone. I suggest the elderly to be careful and never download anything randomly. If you don't understand, you can ask the young people at home, they will always understand. Remember, the elderly have a big gap when it comes to the Internet and need to be careful. 3. Set passwords for important software

Ask young people at home to set passwords for important software. If you set a password for important software, the elderly will definitely ask their family members what the password is when they use it. At this time we can get a rough idea of ??whether this is reliable or not. If the elderly at home use an Android phone, the operation is super simple. Just find the app lock in the settings, select the apps that need to limit their usage time, and set a password. In this way, if you want to use these easy apps in the future, you will need to enter the password to open them.

I myself have used this function to restrict certain apps for my grandparents. If you use an Apple phone, limiting app time will indeed be a bit troublesome. You can only turn on the screen time option, which limits the use time of all apps. The problem is that you can’t chat on WeChat at any time. Therefore, I suggest that if you only have one mobile phone, you should use this screen time limit function with caution so as not to affect your normal life. 4. Set the interception mode on your mobile phone

The last method is also the most useful in my opinion. When the elderly usually register the software, their information may be leaked. In this case, they will be easily caught by criminals and vulnerable to Telecom fraud, don’t panic. At this time, we only need to open the mobile phone of the elderly at home, find the optional phone settings, then click on the anti-harassment settings, and turn on the "call blocking settings" and "unknown call" settings. Some people may not know what needs to be intercepted, but I will help you end it: Generally speaking, "170", "171", "400" or "800", "95" and "00" + area code starting with , these can be set to intercept. If you don't know how to do it yourself, you can also ask your children to help, and they can solve it.