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Scam Targeting Seniors

Scammers target seniors, steal $100M+ through gold bar scheme

  • Aug 6

FBI says older Americans lost $8B to scams last year; how to stay safe

  • Jul 28

Retired couple speaks out after being scammed out of $845K

  • May 21

California widower loses $1M to 'wrong number' crypto romance scam

  • Oct 31, 2025

Raleigh woman loses thousands to computer scam

  • Mar 22, 2025

98-year-old woman scammed out of $800K, but no one facing charges

  • Dec 19, 2024

Americans older than 60 lost $3.4 billion to scams in 2023: FBI

  • May 1, 2024

Romance scam swindles life savings from widow moving to Cary

  • Sep 21, 2023

Latest Videos

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Be wary of ticket scammers trying to cash in on NCAA games in Triangle

  • Mar 17, 2025
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98-year-old NC woman scammed out of $800K, but no one facing charges

  • Dec 18, 2024
3:02

Widow moves to Cary to start new life; ends up losing $78,000 of her life savings in romance scam

  • Sep 21, 2023
2:12

Raleigh woman who lost life savings in imposter scam is now warning others

  • Apr 1, 2023
1:20

Troubleshooter: Scammers using the BBB name in lottery scam

  • Jul 21, 2020
2:11

Fake FBI agents threaten sick, elderly woman with jail

  • Jul 15, 2017
1:47

NCDOI: Retired insurance agents targeted senior citizens

  • May 22, 2017
1:57

Elderly man falls prey to lottery scam

  • May 20, 2017

Latest Stories

North Carolina grandmother trying to buy puppy for her grandson loses life savings to scam

"I can't believe that I fell victim to that. That was my whole savings. That was everything I had."

  • Jul 14, 2023

'I didn't order it': Cary woman gets COVID tests in the mail she says she didn't order or want

"I say, well, this is a fraudulent claim because I did not order it. I did not request it. I do not know why they sent it to us in the first place."

  • May 3, 2023

Couple tricked into wiring nearly $70K from Wells Fargo account to scammer

The scammer convinced the man that nearly $70,000 was "accidentally" transferred and asked him to "wire back" $68,000.

  • Apr 28, 2023

NC woman loses life savings thinking she's 'helping the government,' now she's warning others

The 84-year-old tells ABC11 Troubleshooter she's embarrassed and devastated after losing her life savings.

  • Apr 2, 2023

Apex Police warn of cloning of police department phone numbers in fraud scam

Apex Police are looking into an apparent fraud scam where someone cloned a police department phone number in a scheme to steal money from residents.

  • Mar 22, 2023