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Sixteen individuals have been charged in connection with a "grandparent scam" in which hundreds of elderly people were defrauded out of millions of dollars, said U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
This can often be the first clue you're getting a scam call, and more specifically these area codes are most likely to be spam. Domestic: Be Wary of These Seven Area Codes 216 – Cleveland, Ohio
[2] Older people are disproportionately targeted by fraudulent telemarketers and make up 80% of victims affected by telemarketing scams alone. Older people may be targeted more because the scammer assumes they may be more trusting, too polite to hang up, or have a nest egg. [3] Many older people have money to invest and are in need of profit.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
The scam may extend to the creation of Web sites for the bogus brand, which usually sounds similar to that of a respected loudspeaker company. They will often place an ad for the speakers in the "For sale" Classifieds of the local newspaper, at the exorbitant price, and then show the mark a copy of this ad to "verify" their worth. [citation needed]
Bogus caller ID has also been used in grandparent scams, which target the elderly by impersonating family members and requesting wire transfer of money. [ 21 ] In 2018, one method of caller ID spoofing was called "neighbor spoofing", using either the same area code and telephone prefix of the person being called, or the name of a person or ...
Online scam No. 3: Your "grandchild" asks for money over the phone Scammers may try to pretend to be your grandchildren. (Photo: Getty) (fizkes via Getty Images)