Category: Financial Exploitation

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Access To Accounts Is First Step Impersonating Senior Online And Over Phone One In Five Older Americans Are Victims Of Financial Abuse Isolated seniors can be financially exploited by almost anyone but our litigators see in-home caregivers very frequently as the abusers.  Typically, the caregiver starts out slowly […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Federal And Local Authorities Cooperate In Prosecution False Investment Opportunities And Other Fraudulent Schemes Financial Abusers Can Be Unrelenting All seniors can be victims of financial elder abuse and that abuse may be an isolated incident or a sustained series of abuses or thefts from a senior over […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER SEC Pursues Elder Abuse Charges Against Advisor Unauthorized Trades And Falsified Documents Betraying Trust Of Older Client The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) polices the financial markets to protect investors from fraud. The SEC’s Retail Strategy Task Force has especially focused on fraud against older investors and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Isolation And Economic Downturn Generate More Financial Elder Abuse Pandemic Brings Financial Risks Too How Can You Protect Senior Loved Ones? As a group, by far the largest percentage of COVID-19 deaths has occurred among America’s senior population. But there is another, more subtle, danger lurking in the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER  Agents Target Seniors For Unsuitable Insurance Or Investments Beware The Hype And Get A Second Opinion “Free lunch” investment seminars may be on hold right now during the pandemic but insurance agents still have products to sell, some of which may be unsuitable for seniors. Our financial elder […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER How Financial Abusers Target Older Investors Protecting Your Loved Ones Elderly men and women are vulnerable to financial elder abuse from multiple directions – including from their trusted financial advisors. Or the abuser may be an insurance agent selling an expensive and unsuitable insurance product, a caregiver stealing […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregivers And Financial Elder Abuse Isolated Seniors At Greatest Risk Seniors Captive In Their Own Home Caregiver fraud on the elderly is a very real, and growing, danger. The Alameda County and California elder abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. represent seniors victimized by abusive caregivers and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Jewelry, Cash, Checks, and Personal Information Increased Isolation During Pandemic Puts Seniors At Greater Risk Preventing Caregiver Theft Social isolation of seniors during the pandemic, intended to protect them from coronavirus, has at the same time increased their vulnerability to financial elder abuse. Greedy caregivers use the heightened […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Betraying Seniors’ Trust Financial Elder Abuse Can Strike Any Senior Advisor Accesses Client Funds Financial advisors, caregivers, insurance agents, retirement planners, stock brokers, trustees, persons with Powers of Attorney and even court-appointed conservators can all financially exploit seniors. Sometimes, it’s outright theft, but more subtle financial maneuvers like […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Ponzi Schemes Increasingly Target Older Investors One Red Flag: Promises of Guaranteed High Returns In a Ponzi scheme, fraudsters use money they collect from new investors to pay existing investors. What appears to be a return on your investment is actually money from another investor who has been […]