Recent Posts in the Elder Abuse Category

• DOJ Announces Results of Largest National Elder Fraud Sweep

  Mar 18, 2019
  The FBI and U.S. Department of Justice have released the results of a year-long enforcement effort targeting individuals and entities who capitalize ...
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• Tips to Protect Your Elderly Loved Ones from Financial Exploitation

  Apr 11, 2018
  Senior investors are among the most frequently targeted victims of financial exploitation. In order to better protect this group of people, the ...
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• Are Brokerages and Advisors Doing Enough to Protect Seniors?

  Oct 26, 2017
  Wall Street is not doing enough to protect senior investors. Financial regulators warn that senior financial fraud is on the rise, and brokerages and ...
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• Senator Enlists Regulators to Help Pass Senior Financial Protection Bill

  May 19, 2016
  Last month, we posted a blog discussing a new program — Senior$afe — created by the Maine Council for Elder Abuse Prevention that would help ...
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• Emotions Make Older Adults More Susceptible to Fraud

  May 13, 2016
  According to research from Stanford, the FINRA Foundation, and AARP, inducing older adults’ emotions increases the risk of them buying falsely ...
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• Training for Senior Financial Abuse Awareness Offered by State Regulators

  Apr 6, 2016
  The North American Securities Administrators Association will soon begin training members on how to spot financial abuse of elderly investors. The ...
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• Survey Shows Slight Decrease in Elder Financial Abuse Claims

  Mar 25, 2016
  According to the Investor Protection Trust, a nonprofit that advocates investor education, 17% of elderly Americans have been financially abused, ...
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• Financial Predators Turn to Insurance Products to Target the Elderly

  Feb 18, 2016
  As the baby boomer generation continues to age, financial abuse grows in products like annuities and life insurance, a shift from fraud tactics of ...
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