{"id":311,"date":"2026-09-04T10:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:32:26","slug":"special-senior-workshop-senior-scam-detectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Special Senior Workshop: Senior Scam Detectives\u2122 \u2014 Using Generative A.I. to Detect Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WackyCoder\u2122 \u2014 Bergen County Division of Senior Services United<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This confidence-building workshop teaches seniors to recognize scams, use A.I. as a checking aid, verify suspicious claims independently, and report fraud.<\/p>\n<h2>Workshop flow<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Welcome and scam icebreaker<\/li>\n<li>Meet your A.I. assistant<\/li>\n<li>Scam or Safe? challenge<\/li>\n<li>Hands-on suspicious-message practice<\/li>\n<li>Deepfake and voice-clone awareness<\/li>\n<li>Passwords, banking, Medicare, romance, shopping, and tech-support scams<\/li>\n<li>Reporting fraud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Golden rule<\/h2>\n<p><strong>STOP \u2192 THINK \u2192 VERIFY.<\/strong> Never send money, gift cards, passwords, or one-time codes because someone pressures you to act immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaway:<\/strong> A.I. can help you investigate, but verification should come from official sources and trusted contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interactive scam-prevention workshop helping seniors identify, verify, avoid, and report modern fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-for-seniors","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}