Brian Lair on WNYC, and next up as part of our ongoing coverage of cybersecurity and digital safety in your own lives. we talked to a conversation about how to protect your

aging relatives in particular today from falling for scams, especially as those scams

get more sophisticated. And as the scammers have learned that people over, say, around 70,

seem to be particularly susceptible as prey.

So we're going to invite your phone calls for you to call out any scams that you as a senior

or seniors you know have been approached with in recent times.

And we're going to ask advice from our guest, Paulette Perhatch,

a freelance writer whose recent piece in the New York Times is how to prevent aging parents

and relatives from making financial mistakes. Paulette, thanks for coming on for this. Welcome

to WNYC. Yeah, thank you for having me and for

covering this really important topic. And listeners, do you have an aging parent or other loved one

who recently fell for a scam? 212-433. WNYC. Say what it is so others know that those predators are out

there. 212-433-9-6-9-2, or maybe you or someone

you know have almost fallen for a scam targeted at seniors until you realize, wait, wait a

second, something doesn't seem right here. 212-433, WNYC, tell us your stories.

Call out these particular scams

as a matter of helping people enhance their cybersecurity

and that of their loved ones,

especially older loved ones in this case.

212-433, WNYC, 433-9-6-9-2. I'll start with one in particular,

Paulette, that we heard about recently. We heard from someone who fell for an AI-generated video

of Anderson Cooper, supposedly of Anderson Cooper, selling a product

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