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More on Financial Scams Aimed at the Elderly

July 15, 2012 | Marti Weston, AsOurParentsAge.net

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…

Helping Aging Parents (and Ourselves) Avoid Scams

April 22, 2012 | Marti Weston, AsOurParentsAge.net

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…

Scams and Seniors: Redux

December 2, 2011 | Marti Weston, AsOurParentsAge.net

I cannot get Rachel from Credit Card Services to stop calling me. She has such a lovely voice, and she always tells me that there is no problem with my credit card. But then she continues on, encouraging me to talk to one of her colleagues about loweri…

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