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“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 ...
A warning about the "Phantom Hacker" scam has been issued by New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella. This is what you should know. 'Phantom Hacker' scams target NH older adult population ...
Sep. 5—The Federal Trade Commission gives information on the latest scam involving Medicare and COVID-19 kits and what to do if a person becomes a victim of the scam. 1 What is the scam? In June ...
Anxiety about COVID-19 makes people more willing to "try anything" that might give them a sense of control of the situation, making them easy targets for scams. Many false claims about measures against COVID-19 have circulated widely on social media, but some have been circulated by text, on YouTube, and even in some mainstream media. Officials ...
Misinformation on the subject of COVID-19 has been used by politicians, interest groups, and state actors in many countries for political purposes: to avoid responsibility, scapegoat other countries, and avoid criticism of their earlier decisions. Sometimes there is a financial motive as well.
e. This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in 2019, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 known to have been identified were in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019. It marked the beginning of the 2019–2020 COVID ...
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 ...