It happens to soook many people. Thousands-10s of thousands of people a day. And not all of them are complete idiots, they are just stressed out/worried about some shit in a rush and make a mistake. You get a convincing enough email/text/call whatever and they call the number listed because they are worried someone got into their account.
Shit, I think I saw an article a couple days ago saying roughly $16 billion dollars were scammed from people in the U.S. like that in 2024 alone.
Very often the person who got scammed realizes right away but soon as that person that remoted in presses whatever button it’s done. If they aren’t paying attention, that $5,000 in Apple gift cards was bought with your face ID to verify it, the activation code was grabbed from the email they delete the email and end the call. They immediately redeem the activation code on a random Apple ID they have, and it’s a race to use those funds up before the person scammed realizes, gets a hold of Apple, and apple flags the purchase and freezes the account it was activated on.
Even if all the funds are still on the Apple account and frozen… The person who got scammed won’t get that money back I don’t believe. Apple profits from that purchase, why would they want to lose that sale. People buy Uber and other such gift cards as well. And not much is done to stop all these people getting scammed
I think one of the main things that we need is to get a group of people together to write up an actual health care plan that covers all Americans and show that it costs the same or less of what we pay now. Then drill it into everyone’s heads that they are being stolen from and cheated every day of their lives by our current healthcare system.
The people who think we have great health care options need to realize we aren’t in the top 40 countries in the world for keeping a kid alive to 1 nor 5 years old.
The number of white women are around 3x as likely to die during a pregnancy/birth than those in Canada or the UK, and the reason I say white is because black mothers are around 6x more likely to die.
We are paying far more than anyone else in the world for healthcare and I would call the service we receive for our money absolute dog shit.
If we could get the population to agree on that, we can say fuck the Democrats, fuck the Republicans, fuck their entire existence being to divide us and trick us into voting against our best interests, but anyone who is going to walk into congress is going to put forward the healthcare bill exactly how we wrote it with no changes or we throw every person in Congress out of the country permanently and put new members in the next day.
“But the insurance companies” <- fuck them, they are out of business, the legislation was the permanent insurance for everyone, you don’t need to pay someone every month, you are already paying it out of your taxes