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"Elder Fraud Scams Are Alarmingly Real 💻💸

Every day, scammers target our elders, and that’s why ScamShielder exists—to protect them.

📊 2023 FBI Elder Fraud Report Highlights:

101,068 complaints filed
$3.4 billion in total losses
11% increase in losses from 2022
5,920 victims lost over $100K
Average loss per complaint: $33,915

Let’s stand together to protect our loved ones from these devastating scams. Learn how ScamShielder can help!"

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ScamShielder Anti-Scam Software - Annual License Protect yourself and your loved ones against scammers! Introducing the ScamShielder Annual Plan, the ultimate software to protect you or your loved ones from falling victim to remote access scams that is charged on an annual basis. ScamShielder keeps your loved ones computer secure by detecting any....

Meet ScamShielder: Your Personal Defence Against Online Scammers at only $49 annually to protect up to 4 users.

Keep yourself—and especially your elderly loved ones—safe from cyber attackers targeting their life savings. Protect what matters most with ScamShielder.

Made for anyone from security professionals to everyday internet users, ScamShielder installs quickly and begins safeguarding you within minutes.

Try it now:

ScamShielder Anti-Scam Software - Annual License Protect yourself and your loved ones against scammers! Introducing the ScamShielder Annual Plan, the ultimate software to protect you or your loved ones from falling victim to remote access scams that is charged on an annual basis. ScamShielder keeps your loved ones computer secure by detecting any....

https://apnews.com/article/older-people-fraud-fbi-report-c0da7899f667f9daace4926d5ff3f427

The most commonly reported fraud among older adults last year was tech support scams, in which criminals pose over the phone as technical or customer service representatives. In one such scam authorities say is rising in popularity, criminals impersonate technology, banking and government officials to convince victims that foreign hackers have infiltrated their bank accounts and instruct them that to protect their money they should move it to a new account — one secretly controlled by the scammers.

Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, an FBI report says The FBI says scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year. An FBI report released Tuesday shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated tactics to trick the vulnerable into giving up their life savings.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/09/youd-never-fall-for-an-online-scam-right/

You’d never fall for an online scam, right? — Harvard Gazette Wrong, says cybersecurity expert. Con artists use time-tested tricks that can work on anyone regardless of age, IQ — what’s changed is scale.

https://www.voanews.com/a/scammers-swipe-billions-from-americans-every-year-many-getting-away-with-it/7688529.html

Scammers swipe billions from Americans every year, many getting away with it Crime wave projected to worsen as US population ages and technology makes it easier to successfully perpetrate fraud

Breaking: US Feds Arrest Man for North Korean Remote IT Worker Scam on Florida Residents

U.S. federal prosecutors charged a Tennessee man with abetting North Korea in an ongoing effort to obtain remote IT work for its nationals as a way of generating hard currency to fund the development of weapons of mass destruction.

See Also: OnDemand | 2024 Phishing Insights: What 11.9 Million User Behaviors Reveal About Your Risk

An indictment unsealed Thursday against Nashville resident Matthew Isaac Knoot, 38, is the second arrest this year in a national crackdown against North Korean remote IT workers (see: US FBI Busts North Korean IT Worker Employment Scams).

When North Korean workers obtain remote employment under fraudulent circumstances, Pyongyang looks for Americans willing to host company-provided laptops through which remote workers connect from North Korea or neighboring cities in China. Knoot faces six criminal counts, including conspiracy and aggravated identity theft.

"North Korean IT workers are widespread in Fortune 500 companies, using their earnings to incentivize others to aid their operations," said Michael Barnhart, a specialist in North Korea for threat intelligence company Mandiant. Closing down laptop farms "deals a significant blow to their operations and unravels months and months of time and energy put in by these North Korean threat actors."

Prosecutors allege Knoot kept laptops at his residence for North Korean workers between July 2022 and August 2023. The indictment also says North Korea stiffed Knoot, paying him only $15,100 - substantially less than the $500 per month plus 20 percent of each remote worker's salary promised him by Pyongyang handlers.

Knoot was in contact with a North Korean persona who went by the moniker "Yang Di." North Korean hackers stole identity of U.S. citizen "Andrew M." to create the character of a Georgia-based mid-level programmer. That identity earned at least $257,553 in wages from four companies during the time of Knoot's participation in the conspiracy, prosecutors allege.

Three of the companies Andrew M. worked for have since spend more than half a million dollars auditing Andrew M.'s code and on legal fees. Prosecutors didn't identify the companies other than describing them as a New York media company, a U.K. financial institution, an Oregon technology company and a Virginia media company.

The United Nations reportedly suspects North Korea of stealing approximately $3 billion between 2017 and 2023 to further weapons of mass destruction development. Many Pyongyang hacking operations, unlike other state-sponsored outfits, have a mandate to infuse cash into the rogue nation. North Korea has a well-established history of hacking for profit and inventive ways of circumventing economic sanctions that also include forced labor in Chinese factories, to***co smuggling and false identities for cargo ships.

Suspect you've been scammed? Follow these steps and
begin with this checklist:

- Cut off all communication with the scammer and avoid responding to any calls, texts, or emails.
- Contact your bank and credit card companies to address any unauthorized activity on your accounts.
- Alert credit bureaus to potential identity theft.
- Change and strengthen your account passwords.
- Report the scam to the appropriate authorities.