Cyber Fraud and the Elderly

I would like to suggest our church implements a cyber security course for elderly and families to help prevent ID and monetary theft. This could be organized into classes like the self reliance or how to start your own business courses. My elderly parents could greatly benefit from this type of education.

I like this idea. It might be worth bringing it up to your stake president. If you're able to get a class started in your stake and it's successful, your stake president could send it up as a suggestion to the area presidency to implement more widely.

I'm not sure why it would be limited to the elderly. I could see a time when the church does have a cybersecurity class for it's members.

The big thing is that the church is focused on it's mission. It's going to be very careful about "scope creep". That doesn't mean a bishop couldn't use the 5th Sunday for some lessons.

Some class material would be nice, but I note with disappointment the level of activity in our "Family Safety with Technology" forum section.

You might not want to watch it on Sunday, and I don't think The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made it, but BYU TV currently has a show called The Inspectors that educates the watcher on mail-related fraud/scams, while entertaining at the same time. It's not specific to cyberfraud, but cyber crimes are occasionally addressed. You can watch it for free on BYU TV's website or in their app. I don't think any of the episodes address identity theft, but lots of them address money-related scams.

Teaching cybersecurity basics to elderly folks definitely makes a difference. My parents fell for a phishing email once and it caused some real headaches with their bank. After that, we started doing little sessions together about passwords, spotting scam emails, and just not giving info to people they don’t trust. It’s surprising how much peace of mind it gives everyone, not just seniors, but really anyone who isn’t tech-savvy.

It would be cool to include info about how new technology like the orb is being used for secure identity verification, showing how things are changing for better protection out there.

nerskine wrote:
> I would like to suggest our church implements a cyber security course for
> elderly and families to help prevent ID and monetary theft. This could be
> organized into classes like the self reliance or how to start your own
> business courses. My elderly parents could greatly benefit from this type
> of education.

As a non-member , I would love to see not only cyber security courses, I would love to see
the promotion of encouraging Faraday pouch wallets/purses for storing keys, and any ID cards/debit/credit cars,etc. (If you are a HAM you know what someone with malicious intentions is able to do. (AKA GNURADIO)

It would also be awesome to encourage anyone who is of age to take the 2 day CERT training at their local EMA if available.