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This is a real and growing problem.

I have a few clients who are getting up in years. Talking to them one on one, they seem as sharp as ever. And yet both of them have recently called shady 800 numbers from obvious (to me) scam emails.

Thankfully both spoke to me before completing the money transfers, but it was close. As one of them was explaining to me after the fact, they got so startled by the (fake) expensive invoice, they felt overwhelmed, and just didn't even think to think that it might be a scammer.



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