You’ve probably received an email from the Nigerian prince who needs help to get his money out of the country. You’ll reap rich rewards for investing a sum of your own. You laugh because now it’s a well-known internet fraud, but unfortunately, people still fall for it. Scammers have become more sophisticated. “They adopt new technology faster than most of the public,” notes Dennis D’Amrosio, vice president of the Fraud/Investigations Office at Heritage Bank. He’s spent 25 years working to protect and educate customers from tangling with scams and fraudulent activities. He warns that elderly fraud scams are not limited to senior citizens either. They will target anyone, and many smart people fall prey every day who end up giving away thousands of dollars that they will never see again.
Internet Scammers are Professional Thieves
Phone, emails and texting platforms are all sites for unscrupulous people to enter your life.
Scammers are experts at striking at your vulnerabilities, your fears and your kind heart. Scammers are aggressive. They speak quickly, use fear-inducing words and threaten you. They are amazingly convincing, whether it is conveying happiness about you winning a grand prize or fright that you are going to be arrested. “Your head starts…
