Monday, March 31, 2025

Too savvy to be scammed? I was mistaken.

If you are an AARP member, you received its March/April Bulletin with FRAUD in three-inch red letters on the cover. Inside, five articles discussed the increasing problem of scams.


I didn’t read them, thinking I was too savvy to be scammed.


The week after putting the issue into the recycle bin, I fell for a scam. I’m embarrassing myself by telling about it in the hope that my story will warn others.