There are too many elder abuse scams to count on all ten fingers, but if you pay attention and don’t give out any personal information or access to your bank accounts, you should be fine. The latest one that AARP heard about was a woman who got a Facebook message, allegedly from her nephew, saying “Auntie. I found this great investment. I’ve doubled my money. She clicked on the link and invested $12,000 which was turned into BitCoin and vanished into the ether. It turns out that her nephew’s Facebook account had been hacked and the fraudsters were sending out these messages to friends and family.
