The start of a new year is the perfect time to resolve to protect your personal and financial information. BBB presents the ...
A retired Kingfisher teacher narrowly avoided losing nearly $30,000 after falling victim to a cyber scam before Thanksgiving, ...
Answer: Bitcoin ATM scams are one of the fastest-growing ways criminals are stealing money, especially from older adults.
“People will be looking for ways to alleviate their burdens,” Valesquez says of 2026. “So when they get a [message] that says ...
Perhaps the most sobering of the top five scams of 2026 is the digital arrest scam. This process is an elaborate one that ...
That experience led her to research scams that target the elderly, and to create Shield Seniors, a service that helps educate older adults by using artificial intelligence to analyze potential scams ...
An elderly woman in Luzerne County lost a large part of her life savings after falling victim to an online scam. LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — A single pop-up, that's all it took. A flash warning on an ...
Joe Novak thought he had found love on social media. When the 51-year-old New Jersey father posted on Facebook about the ...
Deputy Tyler Sweers, an Oakland County Sheriff’s spokesman: “(Scammers) are always trying things. A lot of times they prey on love or panic or other emotions.” ...
Jaipur Zonal Office, on Monday said it has filed a chargesheet against Preeya Home Study Private Limited (PHSPL) and its directors/ex-directors Mahesh Kumar, Satya Prakash and Sombir Poonia in a money ...
Even as markets proved resilient, the gains this year remained concentrated in a handful of tech giants, known as the ...
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Seniors, avoid these 15 scams targeting you

While scam artists target anyone and everyone they can if they believe there's a potential for a payoff, they sadly most often focus heavily on senior citizens. Why? That's because many retirees have ...