A new study from Seniorly ahead of Valentine’s Day has found that the six New England states are all among some of the best for single, older adults to find love in the U.S. The study, published Monday, analyzed 12 metrics across three main categories of “health and well-being,” “family…

Scams are as present as always these days, and can target any of us no matter how savvy we are. Unfortunately, however, scammers have a habit of preying on older New Yorkers. One astounding real-world case involved a woman believing that she was in a long-distance relationship with an Amnesty…

RICHMOND, Va. — Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen from senior citizens in so-called “elderly scams”. The FBI is now asking children to reach out to their parents and grandparents to make sure they don’t fall prey to the evil lurking on the phone and the internet….

A Florida woman has been arrested for defrauding an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor of nearly $3 million, authorities announced Wednesday. Peaches Stergo, 36, of Champions Gate, Florida, has been charged with one count of wire fraud after allegedly coercing millions from an unnamed Manhattan man between 2017 and 2021. “The defendant…

Thursday, May 4, 2023 – 1:30pm 1:30 pm SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Scams are on the increase across the country, and many of the victims are senior citizens. South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County are not immune to scams, and to better help protect seniors, a workshop will…

Mary is a 72-year-old widow who retired years ago as a bookkeeper for a Miami-based corporation and moved to Gainesville, where her daughter lives. Romance certainly wasn’t on her agenda, but a scammer using the name of “Bill” thought differently. Bill found Mary, not on a dating site, as one…

Financial fraud is a problem that affects millions of Canadians every year, with older Canadians increasingly becoming the target of potential fraudsters. Many of the most common scams law enforcement officials are seeing today – including the so-called “grandparent scam” – are designed to specifically target seniors. In…

By the end of the year, Indian scam call centres will loot about $12 billion from senior citizens and other non-tech-savvy people in the US alone. FBI’s data shows that this is a 47 per cent increase from last year. Data from the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Texas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a romance scam in which women from across the nation were cheated out of a total of about $1.6 million by someone often pretending to be a U.S. Army general. Fola Alabi, who is also known as…

Katsumi Iwasaki, a Japanese American immigrant who attended the briefing event, told the media about his own story of being scammed. A longtime San Francisco resident, Iwasaki lost his partner to cancer, and later, he fell in love with a “man” online who shared photos of a handsome, 6-foot-4-inch man…