“Seniors are generally considered to be a little more vulnerable,” said Scott Mecham, president of the Better Business Bureau serving southwest Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. “For one thing, they’re home, and that makes them easier to find.”
“Any personal financial information should be kept quiet,” he said.
Scam artists will come up with a variety of reasons why a person should share that information, but banks, credit card companies and the Social Security Administration will not call an individual to get those kinds of numbers.
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