NYTimes.com article pn phone scams targeting elderly

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Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 2:50 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/your-money/phone-swindlers-tap-into-fear-and-a-sense-of-duty.html?src=me&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Most%20Emailed&pgtype=article&_r=0

Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 9:01 pm

That's how I found Eater. My (future) mother in law is 87, lives in a posh retirement community and is continually getting calls asking for money for a cancer victim or other such nonsense charity. (She tells the cancer victim ones that she'll write a check for their cancer if they'll write her a check for the cancer SHE is going through (she has bladder cancer)).

Every we went to her place there was a phone call asking for some type of charity. I told her about 419 scams and looked up information about it on the internet to show her. I found the home page of Eater, read all of Shiver's baits, then clicked on the "forum" link, found the best community on the internet and haven't left yet. Laughing

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