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Getting older is part of life if we're lucky, but a part of getting older is vulnerability, not just frailty of health,

but becoming the victim of opportunistic or just plain criminal scammers

who know how to take advantage of you.

And to the fading ability to spot and stave off predators and add the fact that technology is always

advancing often past the understanding of people born when a fax machine was decades in the future.

That was the cutting edge.

According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaints Center in 2024, Americans age 60 plus lost nearly $5 billion to scams.

And that's what we know of,

which isn't nearly all the rip-offs

because the elderly are the least likely

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