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Sidney Poitier. In the late 1980s, a scam artist named Charles Agee Atkins scammed several celebrities into joining a fake tax shelter. This scheme generated phony losses totaling more than $1.3 ...
Some 90% of U.S. adults believe they’re able to spot financial scams–but more than a quarter (27%) report having fallen victim. Today's scammers are nimble and aided by sophisticated tools.
This summer, Daniel Goldstein’s 86-year-old mom got an email that looked like it was from her bank. Instead, she lost $600 to a scammer. While everyone wants to protect their parents and ...
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Elder financial abuse is a type of elder abuse in which misappropriation of financial resources or abusive use of financial control, in the context of a relationship where there is an expectation of trust, causes harm to an older person. The Older Americans Act of 2006 defines elder financial abuse, or financial exploitation, as “the ...
April 30, 2024 at 11:06 AM. WASHINGTON (AP) — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released Tuesday that shows a rise in losses ...
Many popular fake news websites like ABCnews.com.co attempted to impersonate a legitimate U.S. news publication, relying on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on. They exploited common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains such as .com.co as opposed to .com.
“Mentoring older adults about online scams is crucial in today’s digital age to protect them from falling victim to malicious schemes,” said Wayne County Job and Family Services Director ...