ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – A new study from the A-A-R-P shows seniors lost $2.4 billion to scammers in 2024.
That’s a 43-percent increase from the year before.
And this year, $745 million was lost in just the first fiscal quarter.
Meanwhile, more than 147,000 complaints were filed to the F-B-I in 2024.
To take a deeper look at those numbers and the new scam trends we’re seeing, Here @ Home welcomes back Virginia Tech Professors Donna Wertalik and France Belanger.
They break down the worst scams targeting senior citizens this year and those that are draining retirement funds.
The biggest change in 2025: AI has made scams dramatically more convincing and harder to detect, with deepfakes now being used across multiple scam types to impersonate trusted figures and create false urgency.
Listen in to our conversation and see what you and your family can do to protect yourself from these sophisticated scams.
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