Tag: Elderly
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Elderly People in the UK Lost Over £4m to Cybercrime Last Year
Cyber-criminals stole more than £4m from elderly people in the UK in the financial year 2018-19, data received by the charity Age UK has …
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DOJ Scam Targets Elderly Americans
Unscrupulous criminals are impersonating employees of the United States Department of Justice to scam elderly victims of crime. The DOJ …
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FTC: Fraudsters Go Low-Tech to Trick the Elderly
Fraudsters are increasingly going back to basics in a bid to trick particularly elderly victims into handing over money, according to the …
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Two charged with tech-support scamming the elderly for $10m
Two US people have been charged with the alleged tech-support scumbaggery of spooking old people by shoving scary “Your computer has a …
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White label SOS panic buttons can be hacked via SMS
A widely used panic alarm handed out to at least 10,000 thousand elderly people in the UK can be remotely controlled by sending it simple …
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