Senior Scams

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

People have been talking about telemarketing scams for almost as long as the telephone has been around. Telemarketing fraud initially referred to fraudulent sales practices used over the phone. However, today telemarketing scams refer to any fraud conducted over the phone, so a more accurate title would be phone scams. Many seniors unwittingly believe that […]