By Linda Davis
I am 61, a retired IT manager. I got caught in a online scam last week. It was a repackaging of one I had first seen in 2004. I fell for it, despite being the person who used to teach others how to avoid that same scam.
Why? Because when I left the workplace, I was cut off from fraud training I used to receive at my job. At work, every year we were provided with online courses on how to avoid the latest fraud fads and trends.
Now my only exposure to fraud practices is when it happens to my friends or me.
I suggest that a quality, current, online fraud training course (using example screen captures and audio of real scammers) be made available on our Northampton County website. It would cost more money than you currently budget for your onsite fraud webpage.
The cost would never be recovered directly, I understand that. But this training is so important that corporations bear this yearly expense willingly.
It is retirees who are directly being targeted by scams. We are intelligent people no longer being given the very information we need, now more than ever.
My children have shown me several youtubers who provide this very service I am asking for. If I had seen them before, the whole costly event would never have happened.
However, YouTube is not for our age group. It has so much on it, I don’t know who to trust or what to search for. You, my county, I trust. My bank website, I trust that. I’d trust the AARP, my church or municipality. (Each of my trusted…
