As Our Parents Age So Do We

Read the FBI senior fraud prevention suggestions.

Read Prime Targets for Spam Artists, Paula Span’s April 20, 2012 column over at the New Old Age Blog. The fact that victims may not report fraud due to embarrassment is troubling and of special concern to adult children. Span posted her second column on the topic, with fraud fighting suggestions, on Monday, April 23, 2012,

In response to the huge number of phone calls and strange e-mails received by my parents and my husband’s parents, I’ve written a number of times about scams and seniors. Our family’s most irritating scam interactions are the phone calls made by Rachel at credit card services, though I suspect “she” has changed her name, given the large amount of venting about these calls on the web.

To learn more you can read some of my past blog posts about scams.

• Scams and Seniors
• Scams and Seniors Redux 
• Scams of Springtime
• Seniors: Avoid Fraud Online
• Protecting Aging Parents from Telephone Fraud – 5 Tips