Crime Stopers combines with seniors for fraud, fraud awareness

Jackson, Tenn. – Lieutenant Mike Johnson With Crime Stopper Visited Brookdale Senior Living in Jackson O, talk to seniors about fraud. Dozens of them learned on Monday morning.

“Every year billions of dollars have been lost for people over the age of 60 if they fall in love with these frauds,” said Johnson. “Regardless of whether it is romantic fraud, whether it was the youth court or the Federal Supreme Court missed, and then try to get them to pay a fine to get out of this arrest warrant. So today we are here to draw them to some of the fraud that are out there to stop them.”

Fraud always change. There are new tactics every day. For this reason, it is important that Lieutenant Johnson personally provides this information.

“You won't read all the texts,” said Johnson. “You will not read e -mails and read each of you. We do not want you to click on some of these e -mails that you get or on the texts you receive. So it is important to draw your attention to the local fraud that we have.”

If you have friends and family who are the elderly, Leutnant Johnson says that you have to raise them when they can.

“If you have a mother or father for over 60 years, it is so important that you talk to you. You have to talk to you and be aware of it. Many of the fraud we have are never reported because you do not want your family to know that you have become a victim of fraud,” said Johnson.

This is done in our area. In fact, there were people in the municipality of Jackson-Madison County, who have been cheated over $ 50,000 in the recent past.

While seniors are very targeted, fraudsters can go to humans of all ages.

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