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Really the classes should avoid making it too simple. Eventually people will venture to other sites and not realise some are dangerous.

Really in general in the IT world, there seems to be too much talk about protecting your computer with security rather than staying safe in general. Most people are under the assumption they can do anything online and their security suites will protect them 100 percent of the time and when it fails to deliver they blame it on the programs and look for another.

Hackers, cyber criminals etc. their job is to find vulnerabilities and the biggest is basically us. No security suite can really protect us from our own stupidity

I noticed some emails now will include something such as “scanned and safe by AVG” to trick people into thinking the email has been scanned and is clean. People still sadly fall for infected attachments.

I agree about visiting the site not via the link. If ever I receive a bank email I never click any links even if it appears to be genuine. I have the site saved in my bookmarks and always check the link at the top to make sure it’s genuine and my bookmark hasn’t been changed. That way even if the email is genuine I know I’ve done it safe.

They deliver the elderly people to elderly community centres or in posh areas “luncheon clubs”

I create a giant icon of a supermarket. They click on the giant icon and it takes them straight to the supermarket logon page. They all create an account I supervise them. They must understand how to use their credit card or debit card. They shop and log off. They get a delivery time. They get their shopping delivered to the door. They must remember their e-mail address and password. It must be something they can remember. It must be simple. It must have numbers in it. All pensioners virtually all pensioners remember their National Insurance number that’s the number part. I then create another icon for furniture and gardening and so on usually Amazon. Go through the same routine as above. All pensioners go home with their laptops that they purchased on advice and all classes have finished. Average pensioner was born in 1929.

I never see them again. The favourite Internet scam to attack pensioners is can you donate some money to save some “poor animals” somewhere in the world. They click the e-mail link they type in their bank details to save the poor animals. All the way through my brief lesson I tell them don’t give your banking details to anybody only give it to the giant icons which is a supermarket and Amazon. They don’t listen and the class lesson is too short. Time is money.
And this probably happens in other countries as well. For special cases most of the Internet should be blocked and they should only be able to go to shopping channels.