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August 19, 2019

Will you be a scam artist’s next target?

  • Successful scam artists skillfully overcome our defenses and get us into emotional states that override logical thinking.
    • By LIZ WESTON
    NerdWallet

    Believing that fraud can't happen to us — because we're too smart, logical or informed — may make us more vulnerable. Successful scam artists skillfully overcome our defenses and get us into emotional states that override logical thinking, says Kathy Stokes, AARP's director of fraud prevention programs.

    “Scammers call it getting the victim under the ether,” she says.


     
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