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Maybe come up with a better way for legitimate government officials to unambiguously identify who they are.
That seems really difficult to actually do.
Every technical solution likely relies on the person checking the identity to be able to do so, which automatically excludes a lot of the elderly people that are routinely targeted by these scams.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two men have been arrested in France after allegedly scamming elderly people into paying thousands of euros for bedbug treatment they did not need.
Police in Strasbourg said the men would go to their victims’ homes, carry out phoney control services and then overcharge for treatment products.
The issue has sparked concern across the country, with senior government officials working on measures to address it.
Entomologists and health experts have warned that the outbreak has also led to a rise in false sightings and unwarranted hysteria.
They would then visit the person’s home posing as health officials and, using aerosol sprays, pretend to fumigate the space.
Speaking to PoliticsJOE in October, London mayor Sadiq Khan said the threat to the capital’s public transport system was a “real source of concern”.
The original article contains 290 words, the summary contains 130 words. Saved 55%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
