What steps do you take to protect your elderly parents from scams, car dealers, repairmen, etc to keep from taking advantage

TheAnabolicFreak · Dec 12, 2021

Phone scammers, car dealers wanting to rip them off etc. What steps do you take to protect them? No signing any documents without you looking them over, etc, ? What do you guys do?

pesty4077 · Dec 12, 2021

There is a saying, "There is no such fool like an old fool."

If you didn't learn by then, you never will.

Matsuo Munefusa · Dec 12, 2021

TheAnabolicFreak said:
Phone scammers, car dealers wanting to rip them off etc. What steps do you take to protect them? No signing any documents without you looking them over, etc, ? What do you guys do?

My parents are intelligent people and furthermore in general the type of people that live in my area are good. I rarely meet contractors that have been referred to me that are shady/bad. Just use trade people on word of mouth and you're fine.

01dragonslayer · Dec 12, 2021

Social Security will never call you.....tell them to hang up. Border Patrol will never call you....tell them to hang up. Medicare/Medicaid fraud is huge right now.....tell them to hang up. Anyone asking for SSNs, bank account numbers, even like IP addresses.....tell them to hang up.

pesty4077 · Dec 12, 2021

01dragonslayer said:
Social Security will never call you.....tell them to hang up. Border Patrol will never call you....tell them to hang up. Medicare/Medicaid fraud is huge right now.....tell them to hang up. Anyone asking for SSNs, bank account numbers, even like IP addresses.....tell them to hang up.

Wrong, social security will call you. They called me, but I emailed them first too, because I couldn't get on site to file for social security. That was the difference.

01dragonslayer · Dec 12, 2021

pesty4077 said:
Wrong, social security will call you. They called me, but I emailed them first too, because I couldn't get on site to file for social security. That was the difference.

Taken right from the website....

'Because of the danger posed by scammers, the Social Security Administration’s policy is to only conduct business with account holders by mail. The SSA will never call you regarding your account, even if suspicious activity has been recorded. If you receive a phone call from someone claiming to represent the SSA, the call is most likely a scam and you should hang up and report the call directly to the SSA.'

pesty4077 · Dec 12, 2021

01dragonslayer said:
Taken right from the website....

'Because of the danger posed by scammers, the Social Security Administration’s policy is to only conduct business with account holders by mail. The SSA will never call you regarding your account, even if suspicious activity has been recorded. If you receive a phone call from someone claiming to represent the SSA, the call is most likely a scam and you should hang up and report the call directly to the SSA.'

I don't care what their site says, they call you.

Well, let me rephrase that, if you request them too. When you file social security, you can request them to do a phone call for help.

01dragonslayer · Dec 12, 2021

pesty4077 said:
I don't care what their site says, they call you.

Well, let me rephrase that, if you request them too. When you file social security, you can request them to do a phone call for help.

But in your case you prompted them to call you correct?