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Spokeo warns to watch out for these 10 senior citizen scams that target their hard-earned savings. 1. Romance Scams. Flattery has no expiration date, and many a lonely or bereaved senior has found ...
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, causing seniors to lose over $3.4 billion. And those ...
Cryptocurrency is a popular scam right now since many seniors know so little about it. If you are offered an investment on the phone, turn it down and do your own research. Dan Shick/Wikimedia Commons
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Consequently, they are a favorite target for fraudsters. Seniors lose more money by far to scams than any other demographic, with the median loss totaling $350, the Better Business Bureau found ...
Elder financial scams are skyrocketing, with suspected fraud against seniors up nearly 50 percent in 2023, according to Thomson Reuters data (and 2022 was already a record year, up 50 percent from ...
"Scams targeting individuals aged 60 and older caused over $3.4 billion in losses in 2023 − an increase of approximately 11% from the year prior," an FBI news release reads. "The average victim ...
And if you haven’t fallen victim to a scam, you might think scammers target only seniors and retirees. However, the truth is that digital fraudsters will go after anyone with money to be had.