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More and more scams begin with a call on your cellphone, advising that you or a loved one owe money that must be repaid ...
While technology has made things like paying your bills and online shopping easier, it has also created an environment for ...
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Safeguarding seniors from scams
May 8, 2025. May is Older Ohioans Month and state agencies are raising awareness about scams targeting seniors ...
Former FBI agent warns Las Vegas seniors about sophisticated scams including AI voice imitation as fraud losses nationwide ...
These AI-generated scams are so sophisticated that elderly scams are growing rapidly. According to the FBI, Americans aged 60 ...
Financial scams are among the most common crimes out there, and seniors are taking the brunt of it. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 147,000 reports of scams and ...
Financial scams are as old as the concept of currency. But consumers’ vulnerability to scams has seemingly increased in the 21st century, when the internet and devices like smartphones have ...
Another horrifying example called the "grandparent scam" involves criminals impersonating a loved one's voice in order to coerce a payout or con an elderly person into revealing sensitive info ...
Elderly Scams. Fake police officers arrested by real officers. This time, handcuffs were placed on two women, aged 37 and 68, residing in Naples. The facts: an 87-year-old woman, alone at home ...
A case was recently highlighted to Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng of a senior citizen losing RM2mil in a cryptocurrency investment scam. “I get at least one or two reports a month of seniors getting ...
ALSO READ: Scammers reel in elderly victims with freebies As of May this year, a total of 990 senior citizens have already been duped by scams, Comm Ramli said. “Their losses have reached about ...