The Fraud Fighter’s Handbook

A practical guide to detecting the most common scams, from the AARP Fraud Watch Network ^TM

U.S. consumers lose billions of dollars each year to fraud criminals. They target all ages, but when older adults are the victims, the impact is often profound and life altering. The Fraud Fighter’s Handbook provides you with a core set of tools to grow your ability to detect fraud and help others avoid becoming a victim, including:

• Practical tips to detect and avoid all kinds of fraud, from lottery scams to Ponzi schemes.
  
  
• Offline ways to protect against fraud like securing your mailbox and fraud-proofing your trash.
  
  
• Identifying scam attempts by the forms of payment criminals use most often.
  
  
• Learning why scams succeed, from how our brains function to those life moments that can make us more susceptible.

Scammers are everywhere. But with The Fraud Fighter’s Handbook, you can better protect yourself and your loved ones.