How to help husband understand that some emails are scams?

2016-12-16 11:19 pm
My guy is a bit slow in grasping the whole computer world because he isn't very technology savy. Ok he's from a third world country and wasn't introduced to emailing and using the internet in general until recently he's 29, came to America at age 10, did not get a proper education when he arrived, and was always more of an outdoorsy manly nature type. I recently in the past few years have been familiarizing him in the importance of having a general basic knowledge of things like emails for productivity and a wider range of communication options for him and his clients. I set up a yahoo email account and a Gmail account for him and he's actively been keeping up with responding to and reading his emails but the poor guy gets tricked into believing some of those spammy scam emails for example loan approvals, lottery winning claims, psychics predictions, exaggerated falsified news around the world, identity theft scammers contacting him, bank funds unclaimed, and so on. He gets all excited. He's already a superstitious and emotionally driven type of person he's very naive and spiritually passionate to a fault. I try explaining to him that everyone receives these types of emails even showing him my account has the same emails every once in awhile that i have automatically set to send to spam box i even tell him well call them or respond to a few of these claims to see for himself what type of response he gets from the other end how far he can take it until he realizes for himself
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This has created lots of arguments and he gets frustrated that i don't help him get the money these emails are claiming he's owed and i don't know how else to prove to him that they're not real. Even when i sit down and read them aloud follow the instructions in front of his face and ask him what exactly am i not doing to his satisfacface, he still says i'm withholding knowledge from him and being lazy to help him

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2016-12-16 11:28 pm
The truth is that all those scams have one thing in common. They appeal to a persons sense of greed. Getting something for nothing. Is it possible that if you Google a site that explains all of these scams he might then believe you?
2016-12-17 4:07 am
He's been in the US for 19 years, but basically never touched a computer (but per your post a year ago, knows how to use a phone to text, so isn't completely technology ignorant)? I find that hard to believe, even if his folks were immigrants. He didn't attend school at all? If he was so naive and uneducated what was the marriage appeal (considering you claim to be fairly tech/business savvy)?

If your story is true (doubtful), I'd suggest you keep a tight leash on the family finances, so he can't give it away to scammers.

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