CONSIDER a person who dedicates decades to working and serving the nation and family, saving every rupee carefully, retiring with pride, owning a modest home, only to have his hard-earned lifelong savings wiped out by a single phone call. This is a lived reality across India for thousands of senior citizens who are targeted by...Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The U.S. is seeing a rise in imposter scams fueled by the use of artificial intelligence, with a recent study finding Ohio is among the most impacted states. BrokerChooser, an online platform that reviews digital banks, analyzed imposter scam reports made to the Federal Trade Commission in the third quarter of...Read More

MIDLAND, Mich. — April 15th is the day we think about our money because it’s the deadline for filing our taxes. As a result, we direct our focus to help seniors recognize scams so they can act before it’s too late and possibly end up losing some or all their money. Seniors often are targets...Read More

Americans lost $21 billion to online scams in 2025, FBI says, with the rising trend being ‘e-vite’ phishing attacks. Online scams are becoming more common, more convincing and more costly. According to data from the FBI’s “2025 Internet Crime Report,” (1) online cybercrimes drained about $21 billion from Americans. Adults over 60 were hit especially...Read More

While scams and nefarious individuals have been around for ages, technological advances mean that scams are harder to spot than ever before. People of all ages can fall victim to a scam — but senior citizens are one of the most targeted groups.  Fraud complaints from people aged 60 and up have risen sharply over...Read More

Jeffrey Maas thought he was being a good citizen, helping to fix a mistake that he was told was going to ruin someone’s career. His naivete led him into a common scam that cost him most of his life savings. Maas, a 76-year-old retiree living in New Jersey, read the e-mail that millions of people...Read More

Consumer Interest High-profile Orders and AI Hype Cannot Hide a Broken Consumer Justice System Sucheta Dalal, 17 April 2026 In the past six months, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) and the Supreme Court of India (SC) have delivered several consumer-friendly rulings on real-estate delays. It is a heartening development, given that… Consumer Interest...Read More

A Chinese man featured in a viral YouTube video confronting scam operators has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his role in a sprawling, yearslong fraud scheme that targeted thousands of elderly victims across the United States, federal prosecutors said.  He is the second defendant to be charged out of five in an indictment that was...Read More

Bradenton A scammer has been convicted of grand theft after scamming an elderly Bradenton widower while pretending to be a female love interest, according to police. The Bradenton Police Department, assisted by the Bloomington Police Department in Minnesota, arrested Benjamin Yakah in 2024 after he posed online as a woman named “Julia” and scammed a...Read More

I write a lot about scams because I hate to see good, hardworking people have their money and personal information stolen by criminals who would be better served using their talents for something worthwhile and legal. There are thousands of different scams being worked in Illinois and across the nation, and many of them are...Read More