Grandchild in Trouble<\/strong>– This scam involves a senior receiving a call from someone claiming to be their grandchild. They will never provide their name, and claim insult at the senior for not recognizing their voice if they are asked for it.\u00a0 The caller then asks for money to help them out with bills, and begs the senior not to tell anyone in the family about their request.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTo avoid these traps, it is important to remember that you should never give your personal information over the phone unless you have initiated the call and know precisely who you are speaking to.\u00a0 If someone contacts you out of the blue claiming you have won a prize when you have not entered a contest, hang up immediately.<\/p>\n
If someone calls to ask you for money, do not be afraid to ask clarifying questions that will help you to verify exactly who you are speaking with.\u00a0 When in doubt, ask for the caller\u2019s phone number so you can call them back; in many case, this will get a scammer to abandon the call immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As we have discussed in previous articles, scam artists are increasingly targeting senior citizens as victims.\u00a0 The perception exists that seniors are more likely to assume honesty of others and less likely to take action when they have been scammed due to their own embarrassment.\u00a0 In particular, scammers tend to seek out seniors who have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[207,206],"acf":[],"modified_by":"ArticlesTips","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medicalalertadvice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}