By now, most seniors are familiar with email, phone, and mail scams and are becoming savvier at avoiding these traps. However, scammers have found a new way to weasel their way into our wallets, and that’s through text message scams. And the numbers of these scams are going through the roof; in 2020, more than […]
Senior Scams
Top PayPal Scams and How to Avoid Them
PayPal has been a convenient way to make financial transactions since 1998. And with more than 300 million PayPal users, it has attracted the attention of thousands of scammers looking to steal your money or identity. According to a survey by the AARP, around 50% of seniors use PayPal for their transactions, and that number […]
Top 6 Sweepstakes Scams of 2021
Who wouldn’t want to win a dream vacation or thousands of dollars? Scam artists know the answer is everyone wants to be a winner, which is why sweepstakes scams have cost unsuspecting victims $166,000 in 2020. And unfortunately, 80% of the victims involved in these scams were seniors. What makes sweepstakes scams so challenging is […]
5 Tax Season Scams
Tax scams are far from new, but the IRS always sees a significant increase in tax scams targeting unsuspecting victims during tax season. And as we become savvier to tax scams, criminals are already working on a new way to steal our money or identity. One of the top reasons tax fraud increases during tax […]
6 Scary Assisted Living Scams
With billions of dollars being funneled into senior care communities, it is no surprise that scammers have weaseled their way into the industry. And though the government is cracking down on these crimes, they aren’t able to stop them. And it isn’t just billions of dollars being invested in this industry, but billions of dollars […]
