5 anti-fraud tips from an ex-fraudster
The “Catch Me If You Can” guy on protecting yourself and your parents from financial scams.
The “Catch Me If You Can” guy on protecting yourself and your parents from financial scams.
Are you tired of receiving calls from Rachel at credit card services? Older seniors, your parents perhaps, feel helpless when they receive these manipulative, and illegal telephone calls. During the last few years of her life, my husband’s mother sometimes became quite distressed when she answered the phone and heard Rachel
Encore: Seniors, worried about the markets, are particularly vulnerable to scams
Check out Protecting Elderly from Scams, a July 4, 2012 article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Staying alert for the many troubling phone calls and other communications that elders receive is challenging. Just the other day we received yet another fru…
Read Prime Targets for Spam Artists, Paula Span’s April 20, 2012 column over at the New Old Age Blog. The fact that victims may not report fraud due to embarrassment is troubling and of special concern to adult children. Span posted her second co…
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