Phone Scams - How to Identify and Avoid ---- from AARP

Luckily I don't have to worry about it. My cell phone (only phone I have) shows Spam Call when potential scammers call in. Plus no one could ever convince me from a cold call to send them money. A late friend of mine cracked me up when he said he got a scam call saying if they couldn't collect money, immediately of course, they were going to send the police to his house. He said go ahead...send them and hung up.

It's sad that so many gullible people get conned out of their money. Likely many can't afford to lose a dime. I like that AARP has a scam section that lists probably most of them but these scammers seem to be evolving all the time.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I'm not a fan of AARP. I believe it's an insurance selling program, masquerading as a" do gooder " organization.
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That well may be but they do have some informative, interesting articles from time to time. That health insurance they push (United Healthcare) definitely isn't the best if one winds up having to go into a rehab facility. My sister found that out first hand. And decades ago I found out the car insurance they were touting to save money in fact had premiums higher than Allstate which I had at the time.
 
The problem is not so much that elderly people "fall" for such scams.
The problem is that with age comes lack of cognition & sometimes dementia, which means victims lack the ability to identify & avoid being scammed.
 
I get 'Scam Likely' on my iPhone when I don't have a number listed in my contacts.

Phone providers are doing their job .. and it's been that way for several months now.
 

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