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Advice for Helping Older Person with Spam
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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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I think something like simplelogin is too complicated for a basic user.
I suggest setting her up with two or three different new email addresses. One for important things like gov accounts, utilities accounts, and personal emails to friends, and the other for her to use to sign up to stupid data-harvesting crap like newsletters, stores, etc.
It would probably be helpful to do a little behavioural training too around not signing up for things that require your contact details like email or phone.
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noo0OO! Don't setup 3 different addresses for an old person who already can't deal with one