Comment by curt15

4 days ago

> As far as I could tell, they did it by convincing her to install some android app on her phone and then grant that app accessibility permissions.

Did she make it through the non-google play app install flow?

I think all the software the scammers used was in the google play store. I don't think they sideloaded anything.

But I'm not entirely sure. I wasn't there, and she's not tech literate. She was so rattled when I spoke to her about it that it was hard to get a clear story out of her about what happened.