Senior Dating Service: The Insurance Game: When Protection Becomes a Racket. Insurance Cons Can Prove Slippery
(SHNS) Editors' note: Americans spend billions of dollars each year buying peace of mind in the form of insurance - some of it from companies that won't, or can't, pay claims. These are the second in a three-part series of articles by Scripps Howard News Service reports on the nationwide problem, a problem that may not affect New Hampshire, according to state officials.They don't all use the same secret handshake but the small society of...
Senior Dating Service: NEW WEB SITE ARMS SENIORS AGAINST SCAMS
It is a commentary on our times that elderly citizens, experts say, are among the most targeted group for scam artists.It's partly because they come from a time when people were more honest, partly because many are alone and partly because seniors have paid off their houses, saved their money and have assets to target."Seniors make up one-third of all victims of fraud and scams nationwide," said Stanley Lebow, chairman of Zelgo.com...
Senior Dating Service: DEAD SWINDLER'S LEGACY OF INSURANCE FRAUD LIVES ON
They don't all use the same secret handshake but the small society of insurance swindlers bilking American consumers out of billions in unpaid claims often learn their most successful tricks from the same masters.The grand master of all, according to most fraud cops, was Alan Teale. Teale fleeced 5,500 policyholders out of $72 million. He was described in one FBI report as being "as hard to trap as a glob of mercury on a pane of glass."Teale died of...
Senior Dating Service: Seniors click with Web,
Number of older adults using Internet is growing
When Christine Echels took her first trip on the "information superhighway" eight years ago, she planned to use it as a means to further her genealogical research.While it has served that purpose, her screen is just as often filled with the burnt orange of the Texas Longhorns, the lush green hills of Ireland or just about any other subject that tickles her fancy. "Oh, I always check the University of Texas football page, because that's just...