Scams & Fraud

   I would like to make everyone aware of  a recent scam someone tried to pull on my husband and I when we were trying to sell our 2019 Toyota Tacoma.  My husband had his truck advertised on several car selling websites.  He received a call from an interested buyer at 8 o'clock one evening.  The man seemed very motivated and asked if he could come see the car that night.  My husband thought that was an odd time to be shopping for a car but agreed when the guy said he was leaving town the next day and really wanted to see it.    Two young men arrived about an hour later.  My husband and I had taken some safety precautions but the men seemed non threatening.  They took it for a short test drive around the block.  When they came back, they asked to look under the hood.  My husband popped open the hood and just then, one of the guys asked him to come to the back of the truck so he could show him something he had a questi

Someone has three life insurance policy on my elderly father and the insurance company won't tell me who opened them. I think his landlord did it because the address was in his old apartment he lived in down Stairs .  We found out because another company sent him a Letter letting him know that the insurance company was hacked and asking if he wanted free identity theft monitoring because of the hack. Right now I don't know what to do.  Can someone please help me with this matter. 

Integrity o AARP. Already known for years that Hartford has been paying you for years AARP. Do not ever try to lie to more than thousands of people AARP.

Do NOT EVER THINK THAT AARP CAN EVER DISCOURAGE COMMENTS THAT I HAVE MADE ABOUT HARTFORD PAYING AARP TO SPONSERthem.  That would be difficult-Let’s HAVE AARP WHICH IS A SUPPLEMENT TOUNITED HEALTH CARE  EXPLAIN. Please review the comments relating .  Now I’m going after the disgusting people that paid a serial fraud scum $8,000 .hartford whoever did not like me because I did not ever back down-I have every rite to look and question.  🙋‍♂️ I hope AARP WOULD WANT HONESTY WITH THEIR MILLIONS OF MEMBERS

Had a false tax return filed on Jan 27th, if you have not created an IP PIN with the IRS you are at risk.  Per the IRS it will now take over 345 days for them to investigate the fraud and up to 3-4 years before we get our refund. Get to the IRS site and do a search on IP PIN and create one for anyone that has an SSN for tax purposes, that way the number is only known to you and the IRS and is required when you file your taxes, you need to get a new IP PIN every January to protect yourself from someone filing a false tax return under your SSN.Our SSN's  were compromised by the recent WA State DOT hack so protect your account NOW. AARP should have run an article about this to warn all seniors about this issue and how to help protect yourself.

Have any of you bought a telikin computer, and if so did you like it and was it worth the price?

I have spoken with three agents from Hartford Insurance, and I find their process quite interesting. They do not provide quotes over the phone. Instead, you must print the home and auto questionnaire from their outdated website, mail it to a PO Box in Lexington, KY, and wait up to ten business days for a call back with your quote, assuming your application is approved. They do not have a fax number, nor can you email the forms to them. One agent even told me he couldn't take my information because their system was updating and suggested I call back later. When I asked why he couldn't return my call, he hesitantly replied that he could. This entire process feels problematic and even borders on a scam. I called 1-888-284-4616 and 1-888-684-5603.

This is a new experience for me.  I have never been subject to age discrimination, but as the saying goes “there is always a first time”.  My wife and I have been members / credit card holders with Sam’s club for twenty-three years.  Approximately eighteen months ago the staff at our local Sam’s club suggested we look at the Sam’s club plus member Synchrony master card.    True to the card’s brochure it offers many more perks and was a master card that could be used outside the Sam’s / Walmart family of sites.  It increased our yearly membership cost to $110 but the cash back perk on select sales more than made up for the membership.  All was perfect until three months age. My wife used the Synchrony bank master card to purchase admission tickets to Silver Springs State Park in Florida.  This is our home county, and the park is a world known ecology park with famed glass bottom boats.  Synchrony denied the purchase and shut down th

*** 2 Comments on the AARP Website. Stop by to read comments & leave yours. *** FROM ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE!!! The season brings a surge of charity, package-delivery, online-shopping and other schemes, an AARP survey finds. By Christina Ianzito, AARP. Published November 18, 2024. Scams have become a part of our everyday lives, unfortunately: Between the phishing emails and texts from people pretending to be government officials or online retailers needing your personal information and robocalls warning of money owed, it can be exhausting. And these criminals don’t rest during the season of goodwill. In fact, they seem to work even harder to perpetrate fraud, according to a new AARP Fraud Watch Network report. ​​ https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2024/holiday-related-scams-report.html

FROM THE ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE!!! After one sister is victimized, they team up to take down a 20-year operation. By AARP. Published September 06, 2024. Penny signs up for a few magazine subscriptions, she thinks she is helping some kids with a school fundraiser. Little does she know that it will lead to years of harassment from telemarketers and the theft of much of her savings. But it will also lead Penny and her sister Nancy to help bring down a 20-year conspiracy that robbed more than 150,000 victims nationwide of millions of dollars. https://www.aarp.org/podcasts/the-perfect-scam/info-2024/magazine-telemarking-scam.html

I have made a fee posts about the problems I am having with EXPERIAN.  I see there are quite a few others having the same issue.AARP should include an article in the AARP magazine about what some of us are dealing with.Thank Yourockydean 

I signed up and paid for the AARP Smart Driver online course, and immediately landed on app.link.com site where they had saved the CC info that I used for the course. Seems fishy to me.AARP: is this legit?  I deleted the account immediately that apparently was created when I paid for the course. Perhaps I missed the verbiage that told me this was creating a 3rd party payment account, but if so then at best this is misleading.☺Thanks

New Amazon scam.  I tried to buy items costing more than $35 expecting free shipping.  I got the usual offer of Amazon Prime free 30-day trial.  I turned it down. Then the site went to force me to take it.  No other delivery option was offered.  I could not make a purchase unless I signed up for Amazon Prime.Even got someone on the phone and she could not understand why there was not other delivery options.  In fact, there were no delivery options at all.  Just the offer to sign up for free Amazon Prime for 30 days.  Take it or leave it.  I left the products in my list and will try to buy them another day.  Maybe next week after black Friday week is over.

FROM THE ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE!!! Love Online Leads to $60,000 Theft. Debbie makes a romantic connection with a businessman online but is he who he seems? By AARP. Published November 08, 2024. Debbie, a Colorado native and mother of three adult children, leads a fulfilling life of travel, salsa dancing and volunteer work. While her life is full, she would like to have someone to share it with. So, Debbie looks for love online and meets a seemingly great guy named Russell who claims to be a successful businessman. After weeks of daily texts and phone calls, they plan to meet. That’s when things get complicated – Russell, who is dealing with a work crisis overseas, needs her help to make some bank transfers. As a seasoned international traveler, Debbie is familiar with the nuances of accessing money when out of the country and she knows he’ll be good for it if she lends him the money. However, Russell doesn’t turn out to be who he says he is. After Russell st

If you shop using Collections ETC catalog and/or online be sure to read the fine print.  I placed an online order with them and three days later I was charged $19.95 for an account membership. I didn't catch it last month, but this month I saw the charge. I have called them and cancelled the subscription but after already being charged a total of $39.90 cents.  I will not do anymore business with them. Their catalogs will go straight to the trash.

SCAM SCAM SCAM!!! What kind of contractor doesn't know the building codes where he is working, has his cell phone turned off for payment issues (His words)All Remodelling & Construction LLC (914) 426-6717 Monclair NJSierra Crest Roofing (914) 426-6717 YonkersEmpire Home Improvements (914) 426-6717 Clifton NJAC AIRDUCT CLEA (caller ID out of space) (914) 426-6717This business is not BBB AccreditedWeb site allremodelingcrew.com boasts of multiple excellent reviews although only 2 "TESTIMONIALS" are shown, and niethier is from this decade. When you try to see additional reviews, you are returned to the homepage. Quite a few photos, which, by the way, could have been downloaded from any number of realestate sites as there are no comments, no locations,, nothing to indicate that the work was done by this company AARP Member Name withheld in fear of repercussions and retaliation

FROM ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE!!! Nearly 1 Million More Medicare Beneficiaries May Be Affected in Year-Old Data Breach. How to protect yourself if Medicare says your personal information has been exposed. By Kimberly Lankford, AARP. Published September 09, 2024. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is notifying almost a million beneficiaries whose personal information may have been compromised in a contractor’s data breach last year. The contractor, Madison-based Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corp., processes Medicare claims for CMS in six states: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Nebraska. But beneficiaries elsewhere could be affected if they used providers in those states. The notification to 946,801 Medicare beneficiaries comes more than a year after a security vulnerability was discovered in file-transfer software called MOVit. https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2024/more-medicare-enrollees-affected-by-

So disappointed to see AARP promoting Carshield when the FTC called the company out just this summer (see link below) for not being fully honest and transparent about their "service" contracts.  C'mon AARP, we expect must better of you! https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/07/ftc-says-carshield-shielded-consumers-truth-about-limitations-its-vehicle-service-contracts

FROM THE ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE!!! A crypto scam takes everything from a grandfather. His family shares his story. By AARP. Published October 25, 2024. Dennis an 82-year-old proud father and grandfather, makes a connection with a woman he meets on Facebook named Jessie. Jessie claims to have made a lot of money through crypto investments and offers to teach Dennis how she did it. Having developed a trusting relationship with Jessie and hoping to build an inheritance for his family, Dennis decides to invest his savings. When it is revealed that the investments are a scam and Jessie is a fraud, a devastated Dennis takes his own life. Now his son and daughter share his story in hopes of reaching just one person who might be going through a similar situation. https://www.aarp.org/podcasts/the-perfect-scam/info-2024/suicide-after-scam.html

I am trying to get a definitive answer to a question: I wrote a check to my homeowner's association which was cashed. A few months later I received a statement with a late penalty saying the payment was never received. I looked up my credit union account online and saw the check was cashed. I contacted the homeowner's association and was told to send a copy of the front and back of the check. I did and noticed the front was unaltered with the name of the homeowner's association on the front, but the back was blanked out. I was contacted afterwards by the person at the homeowner's association and was told it was mail fraud (I had mailed the payment at the post office). I contacted the credit union, showing them, the check and they put in an Affidavit of fraud and said they would investigate. I didn't hear back from them. Instead, a couple of months later, I looked at my account and noticed they had reversed the transitional credit they had issued for the check. Again, I contacted the cr

Hello - is Rocket money a safe and secure app? It asks you for your personal information - I realize it's needed to find your subscriptions, but they want all your account info. So do you think this is a safe app?

I  I received an email on my regular email account supposedly from AARP inviting me to donate for hurricane Helene victims through a link. They promised, they will match every donation 100 per cent.  I was tempted thinking that if I donated $20, they will match it and people who could donate more, AARP will match it.  then I stopped and thought.  AARP has never done that.  AARP themselves are usually asking for donations through AARP foundation.  So, how could they possible match donations.  Sure enough, I logged in to AARP and could not find anything regarding donations for Hurricane Helene victims.  So, please be aware this is another scam, to profit using the AARP name and the tragedy of many families.  Make as many as you can, know.  I hope AARP will send a real legitimate email to it's membership base alerting.  Sadly, I am afraid some may already fall for it.  I am donating for the victims those $20 directly with the Red

I would like to share a story about Viktoriia Melnyk who is a scammer from Ukraine. I met her on a dating website while looking for serious relationships. Since she was also up to marriage I helped her financially extensively, I am talking about thousands of dollars. However, it all appeared to be fake as she wasn’t honest about her real intentions. Contrary, she was simply abusing men's trust and asking for financial assistance in connection with the war in Ukraine for her own profit. Because as I now know she later fled out of the country with her boyfriend Denys Palahniuk. Also, I later found out that Viktoriia was simultaneously receiving money from other’s people from the dating website. Additionally, her boyfriend used these funds to illegally leave Ukraine using corrupt schemes.Be careful, remember these names and photos in order not to get caught. Soon criminal cases will be opened against them and a reward may be appointed for their detention. Хочу поділитися історією про

FROM THE ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE!!! Fraud Alert! Tips to Avoid Common Scams That Target Veterans. Outwitting fraudsters who target those who have served. By Katherine Gustafson, AARP Experience Counts. Published September 19, 2024. Scammers are very active these days as more and more of our payments and purchases go digital. And the military community is particularly at risk. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission found that con artists stole $477 million from veterans, military personnel and their spouses. That was a $63 million increase compared to 2022. According to a 2022 poll by cybersecurity company Aura, 7 in 10 military vets and active-duty servicemembers have been victims. https://www.aarp.org/home-family/voices/veterans/info-2024/veterans-scams-tips.html

I've been desperately trying to get a job. I was contacted by this Marketing Company that offered remote work from home, they seemed to promising. Gave me an account to try out and showed me how the work would be processed.  I started to make money but soon after that they asked for funds for bigger pay.  At first it was very small amounts, then just as quickly it got started the funds I was paid, had made, and the funds I had deposited they kept.  I have never experienced anything like this, ever.  I'm grief stricken and just can't find peace.  My husband is disabled, and this severely hurts our finances, the amount was in the thousands, our life savings. I have filled with several government agencies, filed a police report, with our bank which we never got our monies back.  I was able to contact the real Deloitte Company even spoke with their head fraud investigator sent him everything I had saved of the fraudulent company using their name, but nothing,