How can the elderly prevent fraud and prevent dementia?

Children should pay more attention to the elderly and tell them these things

01. Don’t believe it easily

When you meet someone who can tell you your name and ID card Be vigilant when receiving phone calls or text messages with personal information such as phone numbers and home addresses. When you encounter problems, communicate more with your children, relatives and friends. Don't be stubborn and listen to their opinions.

02. Don’t be greedy for cheapness

Don’t be greedy for small profits, and remember that “there is no free lunch” in the world. Do not fill in information in unfamiliar or informal institutions and websites, and properly protect your bank password, ID number and other key information. Get rid of the ideas of "making big money with small money", "making big gains with small losses" and "getting something for nothing".

03. Correct the concept of health care

Be scientific, not superstitious! It is necessary to obtain scientific health care knowledge from regular channels. If you have a disease, please go to a regular medical institution for medical treatment. Do not believe in a panacea that can cure all diseases, let alone a free lunch from the sky.

04. Don’t pay easily

Whenever you have to pay a large amount of money, you must find your wife, children, or trusted neighbors and friends to ask for their opinions and discuss countermeasures. , do not pay money to strangers easily.

05. Be wary of various lectures

Do not participate in lectures, free travel, free tea parties, free visits and other activities provided by the so-called company, and do not blindly believe in the propaganda of high returns and the so-called " "Company strength" to prevent falling into the trap of scammers.

Common types of fraud are divided into the following types:

1 "Health Lecture" Scam

Scammers usually use the excuses of "free gifts" and "free physical examinations" , luring the elderly to concentrate on "listening to lectures", and then giving "health lectures" to the elderly with professional speaking skills. After the elderly take the bait, they take the opportunity to sell so-called miraculous "health products". Usually these "health products" are very low-cost. of counterfeit medicine.

2 "Social Security Agency" Scam

Criminals pretend to be employees of banks, insurance institutions, and government workers in the name of agency pension insurance, replacement pension, etc., to defraud the elderly from insurance payments. gold.

3 "Impersonating the Public Procuratorate" Scam

The scammer claims to be a public prosecutor, threatens the elderly and says that the elderly or their family members have committed illegal acts, and increases the scam by presenting forged arrest warrants and arrest warrants. "Authenticity" allows the elderly to completely believe that they or their family members are involved in suspected criminal cases. Elderly people often believe in scammers because of their inner fear, and are eventually induced by scammers to transfer money.

4 "House for retirement" scam

Scammers will use "the house is useless at home" and other similar words as an excuse to induce the elderly to mortgage their properties to the company. The result is that the elderly are left facing debt collection by loan companies and professional lenders, or even forced to sell their homes to repay their debts.

5 "Free Travel" Scams

Scammers usually induce the elderly to sign up under the guise of free travel, and then funnel the elderly to a certain health product company or a certain health product We conduct tours and explanations in places like factories to promote false products and defraud money.