Comment by p1anecrazy
5 hours ago
I assume you didn’t have experience of your older relatives being targeted by professional criminals. I’m not talking about online honeytraps, in some countries these gangs will mix offline and online schemes (e.g. pretending to be social workers, driving my grandma to the bank, buying her a new smartphone to get access to her online banking, which were stopped by her luckily “forgetting” her current smartphone/banking PIN code).
That’s for Eastern Europe. I heard a similar line of reasoning for banning rooted phones in Asia and it’s easy for me to relate to that. It seems as if first-world hackers here just don’t grasp how low criminals can and will go.
Interesting. I'm actually from Ghana, I guess our criminals have not advanced to that level yet. Nigeria may be a different matter though.
I'm also from eastern Europe. This scenario you mentioned wouldn't be stopped by your inability to jailbreak the device. A criminal gang willing to go this far will just get your relative to send them money directly, or buy gift cards or send a western union transfer or literally just give them cash. Or like you said, they will literally buy your relative a new phone to set up for banking.