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News Quiz: Scams Targeting The Elderly

By IowaWatch | August 5, 2016

A recent IowaWatch report reveals that many elderly people have become scammers’ easy targets and lost billions of dollars in the past several years. Take this news quiz and find out how much you know about financial scams that target seniors, and how to deal with them.

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Scammers Who Target Unsuspecting Elderly Steal Billions Each Year

By Anne Easker | May 24, 2016

Each year countless numbers of elderly people are scammed out of billions of dollars by people who prey on them with tactics ranging from being questionable to outright criminal.