Phone Scams Against the Elderly
2015-08-13T12:34:50-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvNjhmXC8yMDE1MDYxMDE0NDI1NTAwM19oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ==The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the increase in the number of unwanted telephone calls, often pressure-laden scams, targeting the elderly. These types of calls had increased, despite the enactment of laws allowing consumers to opt out of unsolicited telephone marketing calls. Witnesses included a telephone scam victim who displayed a log of telephone calls that she had received, a Federal Trade Commission marketing regulator, a state official, and a computer science and networking expert who said criminals were frequently outsmarting anti-scam technologies. Senator Collins demonstrated how caller identification could be falsified by having a staff member make a call with a “spoofed” identification.
The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the increase in the number of unwanted telephone calls, often pressure-laden scams, … read more
The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the increase in the number of unwanted telephone calls, often pressure-laden scams, targeting the elderly. These types of calls had increased, despite the enactment of laws allowing consumers to opt out of unsolicited telephone marketing calls. Witnesses included a telephone scam victim who displayed a log of telephone calls that she had received, a Federal Trade Commission marketing regulator, a state official, and a computer science and networking expert who said criminals were frequently outsmarting anti-scam technologies. Senator Collins demonstrated how caller identification could be falsified by having a staff member make a call with a “spoofed” identification. close
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