by admin | Oct 23, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Last Friday, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a 2% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security recipients beginning in January of 2018, however, scammers are already taking advantage of this news and making calls to unwary seniors in which...
by admin | Sep 1, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Financial exploitation of the elderly is a significant problem in the United States today. Recognizing this problem in 2016, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) passed a model act entitled “An Act to Protect Vulnerable Adults From...
by admin | Apr 18, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A recently released preliminary study by researchers at Cornell University published in the Journals of Gerontology concluded that naturally occurring changes in the brains of older people makes them vulnerable to financial exploitation. The changes noted were in a...
by admin | Aug 8, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Scams involving medical services have been a staple of scam artists since the earliest days of time and seniors are frequently targets of scams so when you put the two together, you have the perfect storm for scams. Although there are many companies that offer...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 4, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Congressional hearings last week highlighted the problem of scam artists fraudulently selling gold and other precious metals to people, many of them elderly. Often these scams start with a telemarketing call to the victim in which he or she is told...
