With age comes wisdom. But even the wisest among us have become victims of scams, which are epidemic — and growing in sophistication with the help of rapidly advancing tech tools. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received 101,068 reports from people age 60 and over in 2023, and they’d lost more than $3.4 billion to online criminals. Those figures don’t reflect the enormity of the scourge, however: Of the more than 880,000 complaints the FBI received in 2023, only about half included age-related data. And fraud is a notoriously underreported crime. (Read More)
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