What is being done to protect senior citizens from identity theft and financial scams?
In June, 2009, The West Central Vulnerable Adults Coalition, in North Dakota, held its first event to educate senior citizens about the danger of identity theft. At this event not only was information provided about how the elderly are targeted but a giant Shred-a-Thon was held to help senior citizens do away with papers containing information useful for identity theft that they may have been collecting for years. Many people, not just seniors are unwilling to get rid of the paper trail regarding certain financial and personal information and this event was an effort to teach what needs to be kept and for how long as well as providing a place to safely get rid of those records that could be trashed. At the event Wayne Stenehjem, the North Dakota Attorney General shared, “Certainly things you need to keep indefinitely like your marriage, divorce, other family, military records. Those kinds of things you keep forever, but your bank accounts and your telephone accounts, those kinds of thi
