Scam Proof Your Parents

Scammers know how to create fear, urgency, confusion, and trust—and older adults are often deliberately targeted.

Scam-Proof Your Parents is a practical family guide to helping aging parents recognize scams before money or personal information is lost. It explains common warning signs, impersonation scams, fake emergencies, suspicious payment requests, phone and text scams, online fraud, and the increasingly convincing tricks made possible by AI.

More importantly, this book helps families create a simple protection system before a crisis happens.

Inside you’ll learn how to:

• Spot the warning signs of a scam

• Teach parents when to stop, verify, and call someone they trust

• Add practical safeguards to phones, accounts, and finances

• Handle suspicious calls, texts, emails, and payment requests

• Respond quickly if money or personal information has already been sent

• Create a family scam-response plan without taking away a parent’s independence

You cannot eliminate every scam attempt. But you can make your family much harder to fool—and much faster to respond when something feels wrong.