In recent years, the number of scamming incidents involving seniors have risen greatly all over the world. Senior scams are often conducted over mails, telephone, and the Internet along with elaborate schemes.

1. BEWARE OF SCAMS!

2. Seniors & Scams
In recent years, the number of
scamming incidents involving
seniors have risen greatly all
over the world

3. Seniors & Scams
Senior scams are often conducted
over mails, telephone, and the
Internet along with elaborate
schemes

4. It’s important for seniors to be
prepared and know how to protect
themselves from a potential scam
Seniors & Scams

5. Mails
 Buy & install a locking mailbox
 Consider asking someone you trust
e.g. a close family member to look
after bill payments and mails for you

6.  Never respond to a sweepstakes
letter by sending a check to
claim a prize
 Never send any personal
information through the mail to
anyone who you don’t know, no
matter what they’ve offered or
promised
Mails

7. Mails
 Don’t respond to requests to
send a “deposit” to “get
started” with a work-at-home
offer or a pyramid scheme

8. Mails
 If you continue to receive
mails that are obviously scams,
take them to your local post
office for the Postal Inspector
to take action

9. Telephone
 Most important rule: people
are not always who they say
they are over the phone

10. Telephone
 Scammers can even say that
they are law enforcement
officials who are investigating
a crime that involves seniors
and require you to give them
your personal information

11. Telephone
 Never give any personal
information over the phone
 Never buy anything over the
phone from an unfamiliar
business

12. Telephone
 If you have been a victim of
telephone fraud in the past,
beware of people who call to
offer help to help you recover your
losses for a fee paid in advance

13. For more tips on how to
protect your seniors from
scammers & con artists
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