San Diego P.D. Investigates Scams Targeting the Elderly
In a possible case of elder financial abuse in San Diego, investigators and the police department are asking the public for assistance to find two suspects wanted in connection with several scams against elderly individuals. According to authorities, two cases that occurred recently could be linked involving a male and female posing as roofing inspectors. The two perpetrators would enter an elderly person’s home and one would distract the victim.
The second person would then scour the victim’s home for anything of value. None of the victims have been harmed or injured in any of the incidents that have occurred thus far and the perpetrators are only going after money. The two suspects in these incidents have not been found and are still at large.
There are many scams circulating throughout the world that target unsuspecting people willing to trust a person who appears seemingly out of the blue. Scam artists are very good at enticing their victims to fall into their scams and subsequently stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from them. This incident demonstrates one of several scams aimed at the elderly. Elderly financial abuse is an offense that continues to rise along with every other type of elder abuse. Elderly individuals are quick to offer trust to these people that play on their emotions in order to get them to fall for their scams. In this incident, the offer for help is the key for these perpetrators to scam elderly people out of their money. Although the fact that nobody has been harmed as of yet is a silver lining to this cloud, it does not take away from the fact that elderly people are still victimized and could possibly lose thousands of dollars if they keep it in their homes.
