Much more sensitive, so please do not reply if this is too much for you. How old where your parents then they died.

I thought we were supposed to be being kinder to one another?

I'm surprised no one is mentioning Scam Interceptors on BBC 1 yesterday evening.
Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives. Working with ethical hackers to hack into the fraudsters’ illegal call centres, Rav uses cutting-edge technology to monitor the scammers’ phone calls in an effort to stop victims losing out to real-time scams.
It showed the scammers can reconfigure the numbers in no time. If my dad was born in 1920 and died aged 60 it doesn't take a genius to get to the year within 3 if you like.

and have inherited their longevity.

I do think that the age that our parents reached does affect us as we age.

The OP whose parents both lived well into their nineties is fortunate, She may have good genes ad

There are a lot of coulds and woulds in some of these posts.

I have no problem with your question, Fleur.

My dad was only 66.

My mam is still with us.

ElderBerry4

Casdon

I must be missing something here. It’s of no use to scammers to know how old your parents were when they died because you aren’t revealing what the year of their death was so no information of use is given, but it is revealing to state the actual year of their birth surely?

You're wrong there.
A poster gave the years their mum and dad were born on one thread. Add how old they were on this thread when they died and bingo I have the four figure number of their death which could be a PIN. They have innocently revealed what you said they haven't.

I didn’t say that though, I said revealing how old they were when they died is not useful to anybody. It’s the date of birth that’s useful, you can only use the age of death if you have other information as well, and it will still only be accurate potentially to within 3 years if you put the two things together, won’t it?

Scammers have twisted minds, they are not nice.
No one has said anyone on GN has these characteristics. Protection is key.

I'm glad the thread will be deleted. GNHQ will understand the right reason.

fleur those who only see the worst don't deserve your best

I suppose someone with a very twisted mind could look at the year born thread, and then match to answers here. That of course never crossed my mind as it is so so unlikely. But yes, with hindsight, it is a possibility.

An aggressive and unkind pile-on is much more likely though. So deleted soon.

karmalady

There will be a thread asking for mothers maiden name next

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Fleurpepper

Just the usual pile on from the usual posters. Any excuse is good. Have asked for the thread to be deleted.

Unfortunately it comes across that way.
Sorry you want to get the thread taken down, I don't think you should. It's not offensive.

Hithere

Street you live in, name of teacher, pet, etc

or maiden-name- NO, I would never ask of course, as this could be used for phishing and it would be too personal.

As Casdo says 'It’s of no use to scammers to know how old your parents were when they died because you aren’t revealing what the year of their death was so no information of use is given, but it is revealing to state the actual year of their birth surely?'

Will soon be deleted.

Casdon

I must be missing something here. It’s of no use to scammers to know how old your parents were when they died because you aren’t revealing what the year of their death was so no information of use is given, but it is revealing to state the actual year of their birth surely?

You're wrong there.
A poster gave the years their mum and dad were born on one thread. Add how old they were on this thread when they died and bingo I have the four figure number of their death which could be a PIN. They have innocently revealed what you said they haven't.

Just the usual pile on from the usual posters. Any excuse is good. Have asked for the thread to be deleted.

I must be missing something here. It’s of no use to scammers to know how old your parents were when they died because you aren’t revealing what the year of their death was so no information of use is given, but it is revealing to state the actual year of their birth surely?

Kalu

Fleurpepper

NO it is not- it is a simple question and with *Much more sensitive, so please do not reply if this is too much for you.*

A touch passive aggressive there Fleur
A simple questions is not too much for me but your request was too much information to give to a stranger, this regardless of all the years I have known you on GN!

Passive-aggressive?!? Unbelievable. Signing off- I can't believe some of the truly aggressive replies and accusations.

People put such personally info on here, and it does concern me often. But age of death, without specific dates?

If you are concerned, just don't reply- as said in title OP.

Fleurpepper

NO it is not- it is a simple question and with *Much more sensitive, so please do not reply if this is too much for you.*

A touch passive aggressive there Fleur
A simple questions is not too much for me but your request was too much information to give to a stranger, this regardless of all the years I have known you on GN!

Street you live in, name of teacher, pet, etc

There will be a thread asking for mothers maiden name next

Quite aside from any potential security issues, why would anyone be remotely interested in the statistic that Calipso's parents were x and y years old when they died, without knowing anything of the lives they led?

Both three years younger than I am now . I

Germanshepherdsmum

VS that’s not the point. Anyone can read GN and this sort of information is useful to scammers - we see many of them and who knows how many are just reading?

Exactly my point.

I don't see how it's personal information - at all. My father was 81 and my mother 89.

But kitty didnt ask for personal information, she was commenting on an event, a TV programme? which had been running for 50 years.