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Foreign Lottery Scams Target Older Americans

Posted on 04/15/2013 by Ian Cunningham | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Money & SavingsThe following is a guest post by Beau Ballinger, sr. program specialist for AARP ElderWatch in Colorado Recently I learned the story of an Idaho man who was visiting his 81-year-old widowed mother when he noticed large amounts of cash being withdrawn from her bank account, totaling $26,000. His mother admitted that she had been sending money to Jamaica. She’d been told she had won a $2 million lottery, and all she had to do to collect the prize was …

High Court Rules Against Georgia Hospital Merger

Posted on 02/19/2013 by Associated Press | General News | Comments

Bulletin TodayBy Mark Sherman of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has dealt a setback to a deal between two private companies that left one as the owner of the only two hospitals in a southwestern Georgia city. The justices ruled unanimously Tuesday that lower courts improperly dismissed complaints that the merger, aided by a public hospital authority, created a monopoly in hospital services in Albany, Ga. The Federal Trade Commission tried to block the deal by arguing …

FTC Halts Rent-to-Own Computer Spying

Posted on 09/25/2012 by Sid Kirchheimer | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Bulletin Today | Money & SavingsThis is a guest post by Sid Kirchheimer. The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced it settled a case with seven rent-to-own computer businesses and a software vendor accused of secretly installing software to spy on customers who rented those machines. The FTC says the installed software, licensed by Philadelphia-area DesignerWare LLC, captured screenshots of confidential and personal information, logged computer keystrokes and in some cases took webcam pictures of people in their homes — all without renters’ notice or consent. …