Anyone with Alzheimers or dementia should either not have a cell phone or should not have the information they need to modify their accounts.
I have a strategy with my phone. Operation Clunk. If it’s a sale call or whatever I don’t recognize. Clunk!
Hard to believe that DEMOCRATS are supporting these scammers, but they are.
How do I know that? They’re spending all their time on impeachment, rather than writing laws to end this crap.
(this is how the Democrats normally go after Republicans, it’s time we start doing the same)
Evil? No way. There are certain cultures where it’s ok to steal. Lying and cheating are ok too. What does the Koran say about infidels. Gypsies at tourist sites in Europe. Don’t forget the Nigerian prince. It is what it is.
This article is from WaPo, how credible can it be?
If you fall for this scam, you should be in a skilled nursing facility.
People that prey on the elderly, if found, should be publicly flogged.
When my mother started with dementia we took all her active credit cards and gave her some expired ones. THANKFULLY, she forgot her SS#.
I am thinking now we should have given her a fake SS# with 8 digits.
To have a scammer waste there time for nothing talking to a dementia sufferer with bad information makes me smile.
If you answer the phone and it’s a guy with an Indian accent who says his name is ‘Steve’, hang up.
SS was pretty evil since its founding. When dim-0s came up with it, you had to be 65 to draw. Life expectancy in the US back then was 59 years. They meant to rob working people all their working lives only to have them die before reaching an age when they could draw.
Uh...no it's not.
I always hang up on robo calls, recordings and sales people.
If I have live person on the line, my first question is always, "Do I know you?"
To which they always answer, "No, but...." Then I finish with a strong, "I didn't think so" and hang up.
Hard to be scammed when you don't engage with them.
People who do that should be executed. They call people with dementia, or people who for some reason have remained trusting in their old age.
I favor public execution, and I would volunteer as executioner.
I get at least two calls a day from these scammers. Now they are leaving messages if I just hang up (same recorded message), which means they are evolving in their sophistication. I wish someone could invent a sound device that could project a harmonic sound across the lines and melt the sending phone or computer. wouldn’t that be nice?
The DOJ just recently announced the prosecution of an Indian national residing in Florida along with many other co-defendants, living in India and the U.S., for this type of Social Security scam.
And yes, the people doing this are evil for they know they are preying on the weak and gullible. They never expect to get what they want with every call. Even if only 1% of those whom they call give in to their threats, they, the criminals still come out ahead.
But to families with elderly who have dementia and Alzheimers, one of you needs to have agreement in the family to be appointed by a court as legal guardian for your mentally challenged family member.
Unfortunately the only alternative for the mentally challenged elderly with no living close adult relative is an outsider appointed by a court as legal guardian, and that has the possibility of financial abuse by that guardian from unnecessary “costs” charged against the accounts of the elderly person.
National “Do Not Call” registration does nothing to stop the scammers.
I rarely answer the phone as i have caller ID. Sometimes, for the fun of it I answer and talk in Chinese. They hang up.
The big corporate phone companies are to blame for this. They have the tools and power to stop and block all these calls and DO NOTHING.
Shame on AT&T, Centurylink, etc
All CONGRESSCRITTERS, in office AND retired should be forced to be in the SoocSec System..NO MORE FAT GUBMINT PENSIONS !!
I've gotten 3 SS checks since.
FMCDH(BITS)