Technology

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By now, most seniors have heard of malware, but what about ransomware scams? Ransomware is a type of malware that holds access to your computer hostage. And as the name suggests, keeps access to your computer locked until you pay the ransom demands. There are a variety of different malware programs, but the ransomware software […]

Since we are coming into the holiday season, online shopping scams will hit an all-new high, which is why it is essential seniors know how to avoid these scams. Online shopping scams have been around since the beginning of online shopping; however, from 2015 to 2019, the number of online scams involving undelivered items has […]