Scammers & Swindlers Ride Silver Tsunami
Brooklyn Prosecutors Target Opportunistic Criminals With New Elder Fraud Unit
By David Crary
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Boomers beware: Scams, frauds and other financial exploitation schemes targeting older Americans are a growing multibillion-dollar industry enriching the schemers, anguishing the victims and vexing law enforcement officials who find these crimes among the hardest to investigate and prosecute.