Tuesday, December 24, 2013

December 24, 2013.


Financial Scammers Increasingly Target Elderly Americans

"What?"

Minnesota State Rep. Joe Atkins spoke at a senior-citizen community last year and asked how many had recently been targeted by scammers.

"Tomorrow afternoon. I can't come."

"Every single hand in the room went up, 75 for 75," Rep. Atkins says. "Every single resident had gotten that same call."

"Why not?"

Four told him they had sent money and were ashamed.

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