A growing number of scammers are targeting senior citizens with more and more sophisticated schemes — both online and on the telephone — to steal their money, says Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, who created a special unit to investigate cyber and economic crimes.
“From AI-generated scams to cryptocurrency theft and robocalls threatening arrest, these crimes are devastating,” Cordero-Stutz told a U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging during a field hearing in Doral on Thursday morning. (Watch the hearing here)
“Retirement funds are wiped out, victims are saddled with debt, and many are left feeling embarrassed, isolated, and afraid,” she said…