Everyone knows it, and people who use the internet regularly have learned to avoid the most common online scams. Unfortunately scammers have learned that while their tricks may not work on the average internet user. They will work on an elderly person. Here are a few tips you can share with the senior citizens in your life!
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5. Here are a few tips you can share
with the senior citizens in your
life!
6. Make sure they understand that they should
never respond to people they don’t know who are
desperate for help.
7. There are a lot of free software on the net.
Unfortunately they are usually bundled with additional
software that will report back to the owners of the
software credit card numbers, bank logins etc
8. DO NOT let that site scan their computer. It will
create a back door into their computer or load a key
logger onto their computer and every time they login to
a site they will expose their passwords to the scam
artist.
9. Is that email really from their bank, or is it part of
some phishing scheme?
10. Make sure they understand that the only
time you put your credit card number into a
website is if you see the https: in front of the
url.
11. Many credit card companies have a service where
you can give them all your credit card numbers and if
your credit cards get stolen or you see unusual activity
on a card you can call 1 number and all cards get
cancelled.
12. Sign them up for a credit monitoring service
or if they don’t’ apply for credit a lot, they may
want to go with a credit freeze.
13. A new fraud going around targeted towards the
elderly is an email or letter supposedly sent from the
tax assessors office.
It will encourage them to use their “approved”
service for a reverse mortgage.
14. Get more info: Guide Your Family to Protect Them
From Credit Card Fraud
http://www.badcreditresources.com/articles/help-your-relatives-protect-their-credit-card/
Related Article: Protect Your Card Against Credit
Card Fraud
http://www.badcreditresources.com/articles/protect-your-card-against-credit-card-fraud/
Other tips: Credit Repair Agencies – When
Promises are Broken
http://www.badcreditresources.com/articles/credit-repair-agencies-when-promises-are-
broken/