The calls are engineered for the people who answer: the fake grandchild in trouble, the fake tech support, the fake romance. Elder-targeted scams drain billions from seniors every year, and the shame means most of it is never even reported.
Here's the part that should make you angry: banks can see the unusual transfer happening. Carriers can see the scam traffic. Neither is required to stop it.
We demand mandatory scam-holds and family alerts on unusual large transfers from senior accounts, and carrier-level blocking of known scam call patterns.
Sign for your parents, and for the version of you that will answer that phone someday.