The Caregiver's Fraud Shield: Protect the People You Love from the Scams Targeting Seniors

In 2025, Americans over sixty reported losing $7.748 billion to fraud (FBI IC3). Behind every one of those numbers is a family like yours.

This guide is written for the person in the middle: the adult child, the niece or nephew, the close friend who checks in. In plain, human language, with no lectures and no fear-mongering, it covers the scams aimed at seniors and the conversations that protect dignity, so your family has a plan it can actually use on a Tuesday evening.

Inside:

- The scams aimed at seniors: grandparent scams, tech support scams, investment and crypto fraud, romance scams, and government impersonation

- Why smart people fall for them, and how to break the scammer's clock

- Conversation scripts for talking about money without taking away dignity, including a family code word and the call-back rule

- A bank and device hardening checklist: alerts, trusted contacts, transfer limits, and two-factor authentication

- What to do in the first 24 hours after a loss, and the recovery scams to watch for next

Protect the people you love, without taking away their independence. Start the conversation this week.