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Test Your Scams and Fraud IQ

How prepared are you to avoid common crimes of the season?

by Sid Kirchheimer, AARP Bulletin, March 29, 2013

For successful scammers and thieves, every day is April Fools' Day. How prepared are you to avoid common crimes of the season? Take this quiz to find out.

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Sid Kirchheimer is the author of Scam-Proof Your Life, published by AARP Books/Sterling. He writes the Scam Alert column for AARP.

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