Millions of older people live in 恐れる of scams and a 抱擁する number worry about answering the phone or 前線 door
- Older people are at greater 危険 of becoming 犠牲者s of 確かな 肉親，親類d of 詐欺
- Doorstep and 郵便の 詐欺 are more likely to 影響する／感情 older 世代
- An undercurrent of 恐れる of scams 影響する／感情s some people’s daily lives, says Age UK?
Fearful of scammers: A 重要な 少数，小数派 worry about answering the phone or 前線 door
One in five older people 恐れる 選ぶing up the phone and one in 10 worry about 開始 the 前線 door in 事例／患者 it is a scammer, new 研究 明らかにする／漏らすs.
Although anyone can be scammed, older people are at greater 危険 of becoming 犠牲者s of 確かな 肉親，親類d of 詐欺, 特に those who live alone or are cognitively impaired or recently （死が）奪い去るd, says Age UK.
Some 85 per cent of 犠牲者s of doorstep 罪，犯罪 are 65 or older and the 普通の／平均（する） age of a 郵便の scam 犠牲者 is 75, によれば 人物／姿／数字s from 貿易（する）ing 基準s 特記する／引用するd by the charity.
Age UK says an undercurrent of 恐れる of scams is 影響する／感情ing some older people’s daily lives, and it has published a new 報告（する）／憶測 on 権力を与えるing them to 保護する themselves.
Two years ago it 開始する，打ち上げるd a 予防 programme 基金d by Lloyds Banking Group to help tho se at 危険 or 影響する／感情d by this type of 罪，犯罪.
So far, nearly 26,000 older people have taken part in scam 認識／意識性 会談 and nearly 5,000 had one-to-one support 開会／開廷／会期s.
The charity says fraudsters often 的 older people with 明確な／細部 types of scams because they are perceived as more 信用ing and いっそう少なく technologically savvy, resulting in 財政上の losses and a 深遠な emotional and psychological 衝撃 on them.
It 追加するs many older people who are victimised experience a 深い sense of shame, 当惑, 不景気, social 孤立／分離 and 拒絶する／低下する in physical health, and some lose their independence に引き続いて a scam.
一方／合間 a 調査する of 10,000 over-50s, 負わせるd to be 国家的に 代表者／国会議員 of this cohort of the 全住民, 明らかにする／漏らすd a 重要な 少数，小数派 are 用心深い of carrying out everyday activities in 事例／患者 they are 的d by fraudsters. It 設立する:
- Some 11 per cent, or the 同等（の） of 2.8million adults 老年の over 50, 恐れる 開始 their 前線 doors because of scams;
- And 19 per cent, or 4.9million older people, are 脅すd to answer their phones;
- Between 5 and 8 per cent say worry about scams keeps them up at night, stops them using the internet or smartphones, or puts them off going out and enjoying themselves.
'Many scammers are 高度に sophisticated 犯罪のs and it’s 平易な for anyone to be tricked by them,' says Caroline Abrahams, charity Director at Age UK.
'However, older people いつかs 直面する a unique 始める，決める of 危険 factors, 含むing social 孤立／分離, 限られた／立憲的な 数字表示式の literacy and cognitive impairments, that make them prime 的s for fraudsters.
'Our new 報告（する）／憶測 sheds light on the 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の prevalence of scams and the 緊急の need for scam 予防 education and support の中で older people ? 特に for those living in 攻撃を受けやすい circumstances.'
What do older people say about scams?
Age UK 収集するd 返答s from people who 参加するd in its scam 予防 programme.
You only have to 利益 from one thing because that might be the one thing, your weak 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, where people could get through. But who knows for the 未来? We just don’t know what these clever people, these scammers, are going to go for next.
I put the phone 負かす／撃墜する now, which I never used to. I wouldn’t have done it before.
So, I’ve learned what not to say, which is a good thing... Because I live on my own and I’m housebound. And my thought was, I get carried away いつかs when they phone up and say you’ve won some thing. Tell us your 演説（する）／住所 or give me your sort code, and we will send it on to you. You know? I’ve learned now not to do that because I did do it in the beginning.
I had to answer every phone call [when my husband was ill] because it could be the 地区 nurse, could be the doctors, could be anyone 関心ing him. And that was when I felt very 攻撃を受けやすい because I knew I had to answer phone calls. Because I can’t remember all the numbers. And so now I know, because of the lady coming and giving the talk, I don’t have to answer them.
My husband... he’d be the type that would easily believe what somebody had told him on the phone. But now I’ve schooled him, 完全に schooled him on that. And now... if anybody is on the phone, he just says, I don’t give out any （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） over the phone.
