Daren Wilkes doesn’t mind talking to every senior center and civic group that will have him if it will prevent heartbreaking calls to his desk at the Elder Fraud Unit in the Queens District Attorney’s Office. “My favorite calls are when I ask someone ‘Did you send them any money?’ and they say, ‘No,’” Wilkes...Read More
PALOS HILLS, IL — An elderly woman was swindled out of her life savings in an elaborate financial exploitation scheme targeting senior citizens, reports said. Palos Hills officers responded to the 8800 block of 100th Street on Dec. 29, for a report of financial exploitation. The woman told police she was contacted by unknown callers....Read More
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ghost patients, sham companies, offshore owners and corrupt doctors. Auditors and prosecutors say hospice fraud in Los Angeles is off the charts, with providers scamming billions from taxpayers for patients that don’t exist, poor care and no care. “Hospice is crazy here,” says Dr. Mehmet Oz, head...Read More
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is looking for two suspects accused of an elaborate scheme throughout Southern California in which they distract elderly victims at ATMs and steal their bank cards. The LAPD Wednesday released photos of the suspects, a bearded man wearing a baseball cap and a woman wearing a white jacket. Police...Read More
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at helping stop financial predators from scamming senior citizens. Gillibrand, the top Democrat on the Senate Aging Committee, is advocating alongside U.S. Sens. Andy Kim of New Jersey, Susan Collins of Maine and Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania, for the Senior Security Act, which would create a...Read More
Fraud and cybercrime cost Canadians $638M in 2024, with almost 40 per cent of that amount lost by senior citizens, warn officials “Snake oil salesman” is a term coined in the 18th century to describe con artists who sold fake cure-all remedies. But scammers have been trying to separate people and their money with too-good-to-be-true...Read More
Since the report, she adds, “not only have we seen new advertisers from the same scam networks but also new pages running identical ads. One-third of the entire planet, 3 billion people, are on Facebook. No platform has the same kind of reach.” Paul notes that deepfakes use several methods to pull consumers in. “If...Read More
KENTWOOD, La. (WVUE) – The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested a New Jersey man for scamming an elderly Tangipahoa Parish resident out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold. Nigam Bhatt, 25, has been booked on extortion charges. Bhatt lives in Parsippany, New Jersey, and is in the U.S. on a work visa...Read More
Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney Phil Sorrells addresses the media Friday at the Tim Curry Justice Center about a global scam directed at senior citizens. Michael Cuviello/Dallas Morning News Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells speaks during a news conference Friday at the Tim Curry Justice Center in Fort Worth flanked by other law enforcement...Read More
