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• - Explains how seniors can protect themselves by knowing how to identify fraudulent sales pitches.
  
• - Features the Elder Abuse Unit. How to recognize and prevent elder abuse. Warning signs, avoiding false friends, secret loan, caretaker fraud, telemarketing fraud, fraudulent charities, real estate fraud and other types of fraud.
  
• - Partnership of the Denver District Attorney and the faith community to focus on elder fraud and financial exploitation prevention, detection, reporting and victim support.
  
• - Public awareness advisory regarding 4-1-9 or advance fee fraud schemes. Details of the Nigerian scam and most common forms of these fraudulent business proposals.
  
• - From the North American Securities Administrators Association, this guide includes the top 10 investment scams, and how older Americans can avoid investment fraud and abuse.
  
• - Offers fraud prevention advice and collects telemarketing complaints throughout Canada working in partnership with other law enforcement agencies.
  
• - The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, offers this comprehensive 88-page problem-oriented guide in PDF format.
  
• - CCPPFA guidelines for preventing and reporting financial elder abuse, resources for financial institutions, posters and brochures.
  
• - This 2004 report from the U.S. General Accounting Office highlights that the elderly are disproportionately victims of predatory lending.
  
• - In his 1999 U.S. Senate testimony, Bennett Blum, M.D. offers a comprehensive analysis of undue influence in elder financial abuse.
  
• - Transcript of 2003 The Law Report radio broadcast exploring the potential pitfalls surrounding family agreements and powers of attorney.
  
• - The Australian Institute of Criminology shares the results of an extensive survey of seniors' criminal victimization and vulnerability to acts of consumer fraud.
  
• - Statewide outreach campaign under the California Department of Corporations to alert and educate seniors about investment and telemarketing fraud crimes.
  
• - The American Prosecutors Research Institute provides training and technical assistance to prosecute white collar crimes with a focus on protecting elderly victims.
  
• - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police presents this Canadian and U.S. task force against telemarketing fraud targeting elder and disabled victims.