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The grandparent scheme has seemed to supplant the IRS scam in prevalence.Quinn said that scam was more regularly seen six or seven years ago. "They would call and say it's the IRS. You owe money.
Worse still, they often exploit the grandparent's loyalty by swearing them to secrecy. If in doubt, call your grandchild on the number you have stored, or do a reverse check on the number you've ...
A savvy bank teller kept a local grandmother from falling victim to a recent grandparent scam, a type of fraud that tries to scare people into turning over money to save a loved one in crisis.
It's a scam that's designed to play on grandparents' heart strings, and the latest version of it has prompted a national awareness campaign as well as consumer alerts from two state attorneys general.
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".
Across the country, law enforcement officials are warning seniors to beware of so-called "grandparent scams," in which fraudsters are impersonating a grandchild in distress -- and begging for cash ...
The National Council on Aging recently reported that 92,731 older adults were victims of fraud and scams in 2021, leading to $1.7 billion in total losses. These scams may be especially prevalent...
• 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.