The average victim loses $34,200. Some lose more than $100,000. But how do you measure the emotional cost of being scammed -- especially by someone you love?
In the movie “Paper Moon,” a con man during the Great Depression travels from town to town and trawls the deaths notices in the local papers. Then he turns up on the widow’s doorstep, trying to deliver an expensive bible supposedly ordered by her husband just before he died.
Elder Americans are cheated and defrauded out of billions of dollars every year by family, friends, unscrupulous advisers and independent con artists.And the emotional toll of being cheated in your golden years usually swamps the financial cost, says a new report. Phone- and internet-based scams are the most common way of defrauding the elderly, say accountants, with 75% say some of their clients had been cheated this way within the past five years. Another 60% said clients were unable to say no to relatives asking for money.Elder financial abuse is a huge and growing problem. Financial institutions reported more than 63,000 instances of suspected elder fraud, worth a total of $1.7 billion, in 2017 according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Most elder abuse goes unreported, experts say. One study found that only one case of elder abuse in 14 gets reported. The figures are even worse when it comes to financial abuse, fraud and exploitation. A shocking, exhaustive study in New York state conducted in 2011 found that for every reported case of elder financial exploitation, fraud or abuse, another 41 went unreported.Con artists have often targeted the elderly.
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