[Silver Bridge] Volume 4 · Chapter 7 · What the Trembling Fingertips of an Elderly Woman Revealed Was Not Fraud, but Loneliness

1. Based on an elderly woman's account of a voice phishing crisis, which the author heard at a senior center in Guro-gu, the column argues that social isolation is the essence of fraud targeting the elderly.
2. The author reports that in the first half of 2025, 5,131 victims aged 60 and over, accounting for 30.6% of the total, were recorded, and that losses through August 2025 exceeded 885.6 billion won.
3. The author argues that calls from family and neighbors checking on one's well-being come before any technological safeguard, and introduces Chapter 7 of his book "Silver Bridge: Digital Silver".

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