SPOTTING SCAMS AIMED SQUARELY AT OVER 50s

Scam tactics travel across borders almost unchanged, only the costume changes: the bank name, the government department, the courier. Learn the underlying pattern once and you can spot it wherever you live. People over 50 are targeted deliberately because scammers calculate this group has savings worth taking. Falling for a well built scam says nothing about your intelligence, these operations are run like businesses. This guide gives you the pattern recognition, plus worksheets and a verification habit that holds up under pressure.

• The handful of patterns behind almost every scam
• Why urgency, secrecy and authority are the three red flags
• What to do in the first two minutes of a suspicious call
• Worksheets for verifying a caller before you act
• How to recover and report if something has already gone wrong