Seniors Against Investment Fraud Program

The Seniors Against Investment Fraud Program works with local agencies, senior advocacy and consumer groups, and senior volunteers to educate and empower seniors and protect against elder financial abuse. The program educates people on investment scams, telemarketing fraud crimes and other senior scams.

Senior volunteers are trained to become trainers and ambassadors to educate other seniors on different types of financial scams.

The program has published a free and helpful guide called: 

The SAIF Booklet, Protect Yourself From Fraud, which covers investments scams and more. 

Topics include: 

• Common Investment Scams - Insurance Scams, Credit Card Scams, 'Free Meals, Living Trusts, and Other Seminars, Ponzi and Pyramid Schemes, Annuity Purchases
• Telephone Scams - Wrong Number Scams, Jury Duty Scams, Charity Scams
• Other Common Scams - Foreign Letter Fraud, Home Repair Fraud, Medicare Fraud, Mortgage, Reverse Mortgage and Foreclosure Fraud, Phishing, Sweepstakes and Lottery Winners, Sweetheart Scams
• Safeguarding Your Personal Info - Identity Theft, Credit Card Theft, Investor Self-Defense How to Protect Your Credit     
• How to File a Complaint with The California Department of Corporations
• Financial Difficulties -Bankruptcy
• Preparing End-of-Life Paperwork -Advance Health Care Directives, Durable Power of Attorney for Finances, Wills and Trusts, Cemeteries and Funerals
• Elder Abuse and Financial Elder Abuse
• Resource Guide
• Check Before You Invest Form

Download the PDF pamphlet here http://www.programsforelderly.com/uploads/SAIFBooklet.pdf  

Find more senior programs like this:

-More Financial Elder Abuse Prevention Programs 
-Elder Abuse Prevention Programs
-Watch Elder Abuse Documentaries
-How to Stop Elder Abuse

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