{"id":323,"date":"2022-05-26T02:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/?p=323"},"modified":"2022-05-29T00:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T00:58:24","slug":"seniors-urged-to-be-vigilant-against-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/2022\/05\/26\/seniors-urged-to-be-vigilant-against-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors urged to be vigilant against scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Senior Australians are being urged to stay vigilant against scams, as the total cost swindled from older consumers skyrockets to over $11 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission received 16,915 reports from seniors that had been scammed in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Around $6.7 million has been lost through false billing scams, where scammers request payment through fake invoices for goods or services which were never ordered.&nbsp;Online shopping scams cost Australian seniors $1.8 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>Be wary of any requests for money. Another red flag is being asked to transfer money via an unusual payment method such as preloaded debit cards, gift cards or virtual currency.<\/p>\n<p>NSW Fair Trading has a guide with up-to-date information for seniors about their consumer rights and how to deal with unscrupulous operators. To read the guide, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garethwardmp.com.au\/r?u=Cy10k23UZ1PtdQQhSvXlydrlAzXqTmqItmfIiXxN3ppBl3xCI0YGGJeuINcFd36JXp6cnzK1X3pWXc1FiGBG3sQPiY1VonK935a9M9pG2jw&amp;e=e1497b86a41fd3364827a538faa060b9&amp;utm_source=garethward&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=weekly_column_fr_6th_may&amp;n=7\">www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au\/help-centre\/youth-and-seniors\/seniors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NSW Ageing and Disability Commission which I established when I was NSW Minister for Disabilities also has a range of resources available to help people to better understand elderly neglect.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit the website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garethwardmp.com.au\/r?u=Ju1ptH78eRtMrPpYN3zZ-yPs7ZFQCUkYhwSClO_zClWfLpIdW8VniZnnGgDHKZToS0oeO619qKVPAib0ZJoccA&amp;e=e1497b86a41fd3364827a538faa060b9&amp;utm_source=garethward&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=weekly_column_fr_6th_may&amp;n=8\">www.ageingdisabilitycommission.nsw.gov.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gareth Ward<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Australians are being urged to stay vigilant against scams, as the total cost swindled from older consumers skyrockets to over $11 million last year. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission received 16,915 reports from seniors that had been scammed in 2021. Around $6.7 million has been lost through false billing scams, where scammers request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Kangaroo Valley Voice","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice","push-errors":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}