“Ore, ore” scams not just for the elderly

Mark McLaughlin, CEO Palo Alto Networks

When first reading about how elderly Japanese fall prey to the “Ore, ore” (“It’s me, its me”) scams, I thought it could only happen to the senile. Who else would fall for so obvious a fraud?

Under the scam, swindlers phone elderly people pretending to be a relative in urgent need of money. Most seniors sense the fid…