> This is why lists of "elderly owned" phone numbers go for so much on the black/gray market. My grandmother started developing dementia about three years ago.

> This is why lists of "elderly owned" phone numbers go for so much on the black/gray market. My grandmother started developing dementia about three years ago. What is really disturbing, is that the scammers somehow figured it out about a year before her symptoms started really presenting themselves. It eventually got to the point where they were calling and asking for her by name several times a month. She has a fairly large retirement fund, and I think they may be try to get access to it specifically. I am horrified at how sophisticated these operations have become. When they had her on the phone, they must have asked her lots of questions that they used to make a dossier of her, and have been passing this dossier from scam agency to agency. It is clearly a call center calling her, and I have experimented with them. I ask them to call back, and they asked when would be a good time to call back. And then a different person returns the call, clearly reading from a script and already knowing personal information about her. One thing I am concerned about is that they are simply pumping her for information, so that they can impersonate her and try to initiate a money transfer directly with the bank. It is so disturbing that there are people out there who know who my grandmother is, and are trying to take advantage of her.