NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Facebook ad tells older Americans to claim a Medicare allowance card before it is too late. Another promises thousands of dollars for groceries, rent and gas. Some ads sound like they are coming from the government. Others use fake deadlines, familiar faces or official-looking claims to...Read More
Friends of a Bermuda Dunes couple found dead inside their home say the months leading up to their deaths were marked by emotional turmoil tied to an elaborate online scam targeting the wife. Donald Whitaker, 80, and his wife Karen Whitaker, 79, were found dead inside their Bermuda Dunes Country Club home Friday after Riverside...Read More
Legislation sponsored by Senator Carmen Amato, Jr., Assemblyman Brian Rumpf and Assemblyman Gregory Myhre (R-Ocean) to increase penalties for identity theft targeting seniors and veterans was unanimously approved this week by the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee. The 9th Legislative District Delegation issued the following joint statement upon the committee’s passage of S-1526: “Many...Read More
The FBI has shut down the operations of a call centre in India that it alleges defrauded hundreds of elderly people in the United States and other countries through tech support scams, siphoning off millions of dollars and exposing what investigators described as a wider support system behind the fraud. Investigation Led by FBI Boston...Read More
Reported PTI, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island identified the executives as Adam Young, 42, of Miami, and Harrison Gevirtz, 33, of Las Vegas. The two men admitted to operating a telecommunications services business that provided phone numbers, call routing, call tracking and forwarding services to customers they knew were involved...Read More
The Federal Trade Commission has some great consumer advice about keeping your online information safe from scammers. With new breaches and thefts being reported all the time, we need to know as much as we can. See consumer.ftc.gov/node/77479 for a detailed list of suggestions and help. Keeping your software up to date is at the...Read More
New York: US authorities have shut down an India-based call centre operation that allegedly defrauded hundreds of elderly Americans of millions of dollars through tech support scams, following a years-long investigation that led to the conviction of five “telemarketing fraudsters”. In a social media post on Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Boston said...Read More
FBI shuts down a call center operation in India that was defrauding senior citizens in America in the name of tech support. The FBI in Boston announced that they shut down a call center operation in India after busting a major racket that involved perpetrators from the US, too. The call center operation defrauded hundreds...Read More
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has shut down operations of a call centre in India, alleging that it defrauded hundreds of elderly people in the United States and other countries, siphoning off millions of dollars through the tech support scams. Two senior executives who operated “a business that enabled it” have admitted to not...Read More
BERMUDA DUNES, Calif. — As sophisticated online scams increasingly target vulnerable demographics across the United States, advocacy organizations in the Coachella Valley are ramping up educational efforts to protect local seniors. Alzheimer’s Coachella Valley hosted a specialized seminar as part of its Summer Speaker Series on Thursday, drawing family members, caregivers, and older adults to...Read More
