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Moore County captain and IT specialist tell seniors how to spot romance, tech-support and investment scams
Summary
Captain Bradley Whitaker and IT specialist JD Woodard urged attendees at the Moore County Senior Enrichment Center to 'be a scam buster,' explaining phishing, tech-support fraud, jury-duty impersonations and 'pig butchering' crypto schemes and sharing reporting and recovery resources.
Captain Bradley Whitaker of the Moore County Sheriff’s Office and IT specialist JD Woodard told a room of seniors at the Moore County Senior Enrichment Center that scams are growing more sophisticated and that victims should not blame themselves.
“People who fall victim to scams … understand you’re not stupid,” JD Woodard said, emphasizing that many victims are targeted by organized, professional criminals.
Woodard framed the presentation, called “Scam Busters,” around practical red flags — unfamiliar contacts asking to move conversations off big social platforms; urgent, generic emails that use blind carbon copy; and requests to pay via gift cards, Green Dot cards or cryptocurrency. He cited two data points to underline the scale of the problem: “In 2024, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported America losing $16,600,000,000 due to scams,” he said, and he noted an AARP…
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