Hartford Funds Investor Insight

By: Laurie Ortlov

August 23, 2021

Unfortunately, many people don’t discover scams until it’s too late. The following article will touch on why phone scams are so effective, educate on the top three phone scams happening, and pass along some helpful tips on how to protect yourself.

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This article was written by a 3rd party. The foregoing information has been obtained from sources considered to be reliable, but we do not guarantee that it is accurate or complete, it is not a statement of all available data necessary for making an investment decision, and it does not constitute a recommendation. Any opinions are those of the author and not necessarily those of Raymond James.

1 Protecting Older Consumers, Federal Trade Commission, 10/18/20, 2 5 Ways to Stop Senior Citizen Scams, Consumer Reports, 6/15/19, 3 Scam Glossary, Federal Communications Commission, 2/11/21, 4 Older people are more likely to live alone in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world, Pew Research Center, 3/10/20, 5 People who live alone among the likely to be scammed, Cadillac News, 10/17/19, 6 Financial Exploitation Is Associated With Structural and Functional Brain Differences in Healthy, 7 Older Adults, The Journals of Gerontology, 5/2/17. Most recent data available. Elder Fraud, FBI, 2021