Nuisance and Scam News

Protecting elderly parents from phone fraud can be difficult because families want to improve safety without taking away independence. Telling a parent never to answer the phone, controlling every financial...

Answering an unfamiliar number is not automatically unsafe. Genuine callers sometimes use numbers you do not recognize, and older adults may need to receive calls from healthcare providers, businesses, community...

Phone scam protection should not depend on one person correctly identifying every fraudulent caller. Modern scams can involve convincing impersonation, stolen personal data, artificial intelligence, spoofed numbers, and carefully planned...

An unfamiliar number does not automatically mean a scammer is calling. Doctors, pharmacies, local businesses, delivery services, and even relatives using another phone can all appear as unknown callers. The...

The holiday season brings more shopping, deliveries, charitable giving, travel, gift cards, and family communication than almost any other time of year. Scammers understand those patterns too, and they use...

Package deliveries have become so routine that a message about a missed parcel or incorrect address may not seem unusual. Scammers take advantage of that familiarity by pretending to represent...