{"id":942329,"date":"2025-06-30T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942329"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:45:03","slug":"scams-targeting-senior-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/scams-targeting-senior-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Scams targeting senior citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior citizens are prime targets for financial scams due to their vulnerabilities, such as trustfulness, accumulated savings, and limited tech-savviness. Scammers exploit these traits through various schemes, causing financial and emotional harm. Below is an overview of common scams targeting seniors:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior citizens are prime targets for financial scams due to their vulnerabilities, such as trustfulness, accumulated savings, and limited tech-savviness. Scammers exploit these traits through various schemes, causing financial and emotional harm. Below is an overview of common scams targeting seniors:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}