The glass-half-full Reg hopes they at least will keep a free online version. However, as you also rightly noted, those that need it most, the elderly and the less IT-aware probably won’t either know about it, be able to use it or remember to use it. Hopefullly in future this sort of thing will have the potential to be built into the O/S to cover all email and browsing software being used as an automatic warning system – although of course I am sure scammers will find their way around that too. Just this week I noticed GMail has suddenly failed to capture several very obvious scam emails that were able to make their way to my Outlook inbox.

I’ve watched many of those scam-baiter call-centre videos online and whilst they are certainly entertaining, for every laugh I get there is the sad realisation just how many elderly are getting fleeced by these callous parasites and the heartbreak of them making money so easily from the misfortune of the vulnerable by their theft of significant and even life-savings.
Thanks again !
Reg

Hmmm, strange. I tested Norton Genie with two scam text messages and one scam email and it flagged all three correctly.