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2. Top 15 financial scams targeting older Americans — and what ...

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   And seniors are taking the brunt of it. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, causing ...

3. My Google Work-At-Home Opportunity Turned Out to Be a Scam - AOL

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   "Online jobs with Google." The email subject line caught my eye. My first thought was, "Who wouldn't want an online job with Google, one of the biggest companies in the world?" But after a few ...

4. Think Scammers Only Target Seniors? 4 Money Scams Gen Z ... - AOL

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   “Over the past 18 months, we’ve seen a concerning uptick in the number of Gen Zers falling prey to employment scams — in particular, jobs promising remote work,” said Christine Durst, co ...

5. Work-at-home scheme - Wikipedia

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   A work-at-home scheme is a get-rich-quick scam in which a victim is lured by an offer to be employed at home, very often doing some simple task in a minimal amount of time with a large amount of income that far exceeds the market rate for the type of work. The true purpose of such an offer is for the perpetrator to extort money from the victim ...

6. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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   Scammers target a variety of people, though research by Microsoft suggests that millennials (defined by Microsoft as age 24-37) and people part of generation Z (age 18-23) have the highest exposure to tech support scams and the Federal Trade Commission has found that seniors (age 60 and over) are more likely to lose money to tech support scams.

7. Seniors, Beware of These Scams - AOL

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   Selling Anxiety. What to look out for: Scams often start with unsolicited phone calls offering products aimed at easing a person's fears. Calls such as these were at the heart of a case in which a ...

8. 12 Vile Scams That Target Seniors - AOL

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   Asking for Money. This scam is big on WhatsApp. You’ll receive a text that appears to be from your child or grandchild: “Hey Gran, it’s me. I lost my phone and am using a friend’s.”. It ...

9. Parcel mule scam - Wikipedia

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   In the parcel mule scam, scammers often attract their victims under the guise of a bogus work-from-home opportunity, although other angles, such as a romance scam may be used to lure victims. Victims begin to receive packages, often with high value contents (such as consumer electronics or designer clothes and shoes) at the address they ...