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> She will blindly follow the instructions of any official-looking website or any scam caller

You probably shouldn't let her use the internet unsupervised, if this is true.

You’re talking about 80% of people who are on the internet.

If not more.

My guess is that the actual numbers are much lower, like orders of magnitude lower. The U.S. may be dominated by Apple devices, but the rest of the world runs on Windows and Android. 80% of the world population isn't being scammed out of their savings nor are their phones infested with keyloggers and other malware.

And if cases are that bad their loved ones would probably install parental controls or an MDM to protect them against themselves.

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