AARP West Virginia hosts fraud prevention call for older adults | #datingscams #romancescams

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) – AARP West Virginia hosted a virtual event Tuesday to teach older adults how to be aware of potential fraud and scams and what they can do to protect themselves.U.S. Attorneys Matthew Harvey and Moore Capito joined the discussion and described the latest scams to watch for and what steps people can take to stay safe.According to both attorneys, one of the most popular scam techniques includes attempting to convince older adults to hand over assets with a false promise of making money on their investment.Tech support scams — where scammers claim a victim’s computer is broken and convince them to pay to have it fixed — are also common, and caused a loss of about $1 billion nationwide last year.Capito and Harvey also announced the state’s first statewide fraud task force, just the second such task force in the country, which is set to launch on Nov. 10.Harvey said if someone on the other line of a call is trying to convince a person to act urgently, it’s most likely a red flag.“If they are putting tremendous pressure on you to act, I think that’s the number one key,” Harvey said. “If it’s a legitimate person from your bank, you can hang up, talk to someone else, and call them back, and they’re not going to have a problem with it. However, if you have a scammer on the line, they’re going to create these artificial reasons to, you have to act now, before you have time to kind of consider about it, or talk to someone else.”People who believe they have seen a scam can call the National Elder Fraud Hotline at 1-833-372-8311 or email justice.gov/elderjustice.Copyright 2026 WDTV. All rights reserved.

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