https://www.stopcatalog.com/categories/elder-fraud/Recent content in Elder Fraud on Stopcatalog.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenStopcatalog.comFri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/miles-kimball-identity-theft/Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/miles-kimball-identity-theft/ <h2 id="when-a-catalog-subscription-becomes-a-privacy-liability">When a Catalog Subscription Becomes a Privacy Liability</h2> <p>Picture a 74-year-old woman who ordered holiday gifts from a housewares catalog a few years back. The catalog kept arriving. Then a sweepstakes mailer appeared — she doesn't remember entering any contest. Then a &quot;final notice&quot; charity renewal that looked official. Then a prescreen credit offer addressed to her with alarming precision. None of these pieces of mail required a data breach to arrive. Every one of them traces to a single, mundane fact: her name and address landed on a list of active older catalog buyers, and that list is commercially valuable.</p>https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/elder-fraud-catalog-mailing-lists/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/elder-fraud-catalog-mailing-lists/ <h2 id="the-mailbox-as-a-fraud-vector-for-older-adults">The Mailbox as a Fraud Vector for Older Adults</h2> <p>Americans age 60 and older reported losses of more than $3.4 billion to fraud in 2023, according to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Elder Fraud Report — an increase over the prior year. While digital scams dominate headlines, the physical mailbox remains a significant part of the attack surface. Prescreen credit offers, sweepstakes notices, charity solicitations, and retail catalogs all arrive at a senior's door, and the same data-broker ecosystem that feeds those mailings also supplies lists to fraudulent mailers.</p>