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Scammers use different tactics, but target all age groups
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For a week in March you can
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a table lined with pamphlets and
DVDs about scams and mail-re-
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salership in Consumer Protection Week. “I | ® ied others keep tabs on internal op-
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fairy can | at you, we're going to nd you | the tension tay? sltefor their safety”
Yer ages | and we're going to prosecute | Mls Besalelingpuconasknoiar There are a dozen inspectors,
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ip had soa | Milwantkeo, said inspectors see | cana x eeoeed Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
sop198% but} aumber of scams aimed at dit- | ~ Asie orton abouts po-_ After two decades In the bust
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a rivals | “We used to find that seam- es Tes the same scams, just
‘The follow | mers primarily targeted or gago-related scams as well as packaged a litle differently”
deslersiip | seniors... but now were start- counterfelt checks where the she said. “I'm always sed when T
mind and | ingtoseea change in that every Sender provides the tle ammount see someone fall victim to this,
ting. Volto | age group is getting targeted,” andmoreandwillaskfor theex- because getting thelr money
she sai. ess to be wired back to thom, back is nearly Impossible, espe-
woterminate | “People In their 208 may be "Older Americans commonly clally when you're talking about
hip in 2004, | more prone to solicitation for face eharity-and foreign iotiery- overseas bad guys.”
lor violated | scholarship and grant scams related scams. Groen said job satisfaction
ivfallingio | alongwith workathome seams Groen said the foreign lottery comes as much from teaching
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