{"id":259,"date":"2026-09-04T10:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:21:48","slug":"senior-ai-lesson-40-top-10-modern-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Senior AI Lesson 40: Top 10 Modern Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WackyCoder Senior AI Lesson 40<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This safety lesson covers common scam patterns targeting older adults, including family-emergency impersonation, romance scams, tech-support scams, bank and payment fraud, delivery-text phishing, investment scams, Medicare and health scams, fake shopping sites, account takeover, and AI voice or deepfake impersonation.<\/p>\n<h2>Class activity<\/h2>\n<p>Play Scam or Safe? Identify urgency, secrecy, unusual payment requests, suspicious links, requests for credentials, and emotional pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaway:<\/strong> STOP \u2192 THINK \u2192 VERIFY. Never send money or sensitive information because someone pressures you to act immediately.<\/p>\n<p><em>Recovered from the original WackyCoder Senior AI Lesson 40 archive.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize modern scam patterns, including AI-assisted impersonation, phishing, romance, tech-support, and payment fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-for-seniors","category-senior-ai-lessons","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}