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2. The 'grandparent scam:' How to escape its clutches - AOL

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   Scams against elderly keep evolving. The grandparent scheme has seemed to supplant the IRS scam in prevalence.Quinn said that scam was more regularly seen six or seven years ago.

3. Sixteen charged in 'grandparent scam' that targeted elderly ...

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   April 30, 2024 at 9:22 PM. Sixteen individuals have been charged in connection with a "grandparent scam" in which hundreds of elderly people were defrauded out of millions of dollars, said U.S ...

4. Seniors, Beware of These Scams - AOL

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   Selling Anxiety. What to look out for: Scams often start with unsolicited phone calls offering products aimed at easing a person's fears. Calls such as these were at the heart of a case in which a ...

5. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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   The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...

6. How to protect yourself and loved ones against ‘grandparent ...

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   There are steps people can take to protect themselves or family members when scammers demand large sums of money on short notices, according to the FBI. They include:e: Resist pressure to act ...

7. Scam - Wikipedia

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   Scam. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of ...

8. Voice phishing - Wikipedia

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   Voice phishing, or vishing, [1] is the use of telephony (often Voice over IP telephony) to conduct phishing attacks. Landline telephone services have traditionally been trustworthy; terminated in physical locations known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. Now however, vishing fraudsters often use modern Voice over IP ...

9. Social Security 2023: 3 Ways Financial Scammers Are ... - AOL

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   But money scams that target older and retired Americans take place frequently as well. The FTC reported 200,216 report of fraud against seniors in 2022 . The SSA recently shared some telltale ...