Senior Scams

Get-rich-quick scams target vulnerable seniors (foreign lottery scam) by Jamie Swift

Marsha Flynn's 87-year-old father wants so badly to win large sums of money, his common sense vanishes when letters or strangers on the phone offer a quick way to get rich.

You can't get something for nothing: Local seniors learn how to avoid being scammed by Larry Mitchell

Speakers hammered home the ideas that people can't be too careful, that scam artists are smart and getting smarter, and that the many swindles, often aimed at seniors, are a huge business.

Local seniors targets of fraud
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
These groups take down payments for work promised and then fail to deliver. One “gypsy” scam Vance noted was for driveway refinishing. ...

Two elderly women in California fleeced by St. James lottery scam
radiojamaica.com - Jamaica
Meanwhile, the ten persons charged in connection with the lottery scam in Montego Bay were offered bail when they appeared in court on Friday.