grandparents scam
| 12:00PM 4/19/2011
It's a scam that's designed to play on grandparents' heart strings, and the latest version of it has prompted a national awareness campaign as well as consumer alerts from two state attorneys general.
It works like this: A con artist calls senior citizens, posing as a grandchild in need and asks...
| 5:17PM 2/24/2011
A group of scam artists who defrauded seniors across the U.S. and Canada out of millions of dollars with phony calls from grandchildren in trouble have been busted by police in Toronto.
Hundreds of senior citizens -- most of them American -- were swindled out of some $3 million after responding to...
| 6:00PM 2/22/2011
Every change of season brings with it a new set of scams. And even for those still in a deep freeze, spring is on its way ... and so are the spring scams that are sure to follow.
AARP is warning consumers about the scams of spring you can expect to see:
| 10:00AM 7/24/2008
The call comes at 10 in the morning, frantic and feverish.Grandma? Is that you? This is Michael!--Yes, are you okay?No, I'm in jail -- in Canada.--What? Where?I was fishing, but without a license, and now I'm jail, and I need $2,900 in bail money, and please don't tell Mom and Dad -- can you help...