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FBI warns seniors about billion-dollar scam draining retirement funds, expert says AI driving it
Fox News ^ | 8/24/25 | Adam Sabes

Posted on 08/24/2025 11:23:10 AM PDT by Libloather

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To: Jamestown1630
Indeed. These are people of a generation that trusted the ‘’government’’ and if some governmental agency is contacting them their reaction is usually “I must have done something wrong because the government is calling me so I have to do what they say or I'll go to jail!''. So sad. Scum like this who prey on the elderly should have a special place in Hell.
41 posted on 08/24/2025 2:00:28 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Libloather

I find it hard to believe people fall for this shxt because its so obvious.


42 posted on 08/24/2025 2:03:10 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Libloather

Eric Prince + former Delta operators = dead scammers

There is absolutely no place for scamming seniors.


43 posted on 08/24/2025 2:27:46 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: maddog55

“I find it hard to believe people fall for this shxt because its so obvious.”

They do that on purpose so they quickly sort out the most gullible people from the rest.


44 posted on 08/24/2025 2:29:12 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: Libloather

I feel sorry for any seniors dumb enough to fall for this. Other than that, stupid is as stupid does.


45 posted on 08/24/2025 2:33:27 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Libloather

If you do answer the phone. Hang up and call financial institution to see if all is good. Same thing if grandson calls and says he’s in jail. Call him….he will answer but think your crazy!🤪


46 posted on 08/24/2025 2:46:11 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: nuconvert

It is, other that a fatal disease I can’t think of anything worse and what infuriates me even more is this is never publicized, people aren’t warned as if Facebook is being protected.


47 posted on 08/24/2025 2:54:00 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: mass55th

I like to scambait on occasion. A few years back, I told them my name was Robert Jensensen. Even today, I occasionally get a call asking for “Robert.” It’s usually a real estate scam involving a property on Cool Springs Lane in “Taxes.” After having them on for a while, I abruptly ask them if their mother is still feeding them with her left hand. Flips them out every time. Oddly enough, I still get that occasional call for ‘Robert.”


48 posted on 08/24/2025 2:56:20 PM PDT by Noumenon (Duty is as heavy as a mountain; death is as light as a feather. KTF)
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To: Aria

It’s horrific. So people are in the dark about this. I think I’m going to do is start a campaign to warn people, it’s astounding how this is ignored and that piece of garbage Mark Zuckerberg does nothing about it. I created a fake Facebook page a few weeks ago just to see, I had absolutely no problem doing so.


49 posted on 08/24/2025 2:58:00 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Jamestown1630

I think we need to rethink laughing at seniors who keep their life savings under the mattress. Who’s laughing now?


50 posted on 08/24/2025 3:00:05 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: napscoordinator

If you do answer the phone. Hang up and call financial institution to see if all is good. Same thing if grandson calls and says he’s in jail. Call him….he will answer but think you’re crazy!

Yes, unfortunately people (usually the elderly) continue to fall for that “grandson in jail” scam. My 90 year old mother was a victim to the tune of 3K when she wired it to the Dominican Republic to get my son out of jail before his father (me) could find out. The caller told her to not call dad, because I’ll get in trouble. The scammer then called her back the next day demanding more as the judge increased the amount. Luckily she wised up...albeit too late for the 3K !


51 posted on 08/24/2025 3:00:08 PM PDT by DrHFrog
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To: HerrBlucher

My grandmother used a whistle. They disappear quickly.


52 posted on 08/24/2025 3:02:21 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Jamestown1630

The people who do this are very good at what they do.


53 posted on 08/24/2025 3:04:07 PM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

Great idea!


54 posted on 08/24/2025 3:11:10 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: ken in texas

I get calls supposedly from some fairly tiny town in this state. I am kind of a geography nut and if I’m feeling spunky I’ll answer and ask “How’s the weather in town X?”

They like to say they’re calling from Medicare Office. I love to just laugh uproariously and say, “There’s no f’ing medicare office is town-X!” “They don’t even have a grocery store!”


55 posted on 08/24/2025 3:18:08 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Maybe it’s a blessing to be poor. At least you don’t you don’t get quite as many of those great offers.


56 posted on 08/24/2025 3:44:50 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I hate Zuckerberg...never go on his site. He doesn’t deserve any clicks from me.


57 posted on 08/24/2025 4:16:05 PM PDT by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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To: Libloather

First clue is an e-mail claiming to be your bank or whatever with an address that doesn’t match. Does not matter much to me since I never answer a thing from anybody I don’t know personally and see fact-to-face.


58 posted on 08/24/2025 4:17:13 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: DrHFrog

It’s so unfortunate. I hate this happens. Unfortunately, very few have been prosecuted.


59 posted on 08/24/2025 4:24:58 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: HerrBlucher

I have her whistle. LOL They hate me because it hurts.

Any loud sports whistle will do.


60 posted on 08/24/2025 4:24:59 PM PDT by dforest
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