Scams & Fraud

Every 2 seconds someone's identity is stolen. But you can take steps to protect yourself. Join us to fight back against fraud at an AARP Fraud Watch Network Shred Fests in the Northwestern Ohio cities of Lima, Defiance and Toledo!

Making sure your car is set up properly for you and shredding confidential documents you no longer need are great ways to protect yourself, both on the road and from fraud. Join AARP Ohio, the Akron Police Department, WAKR, WONE, and WZMX for our car safety, document shredding, and electronic device disposal event.

AARP Night at Fifth Third Field

Are you smarter than a con artist?

Join AARP Ohio at the Consumer Summit, sponsored by the Ohio Attorney General’s office.

Shredding confidential documents you no longer need is a good way to protect your identity. Join AARP at the Fall Fraud Watch Festival where you can bring 4-5 boxes or bags of personal or household documents for onsite shredding!

Can you catch a con artist? Learn how con artists target victims, test your knowledge to see if you’re an easy target for scammers, and pick up some free giveaways to help you stay one step ahead of the bad guy.

Every day, Americans lose money and control of their personal information to scams and fraud. Everyone is at risk, Ohioans included.

Join AARP and the Weathervane Theater for a specially-priced performance of the Pulitzer Prize Winning play, You Can’t Take It With You; a funny tale of an eccentric family, tax evasion, and love.

In the past year alone one-quarter of Ohioans 18 and older have had their personal information exposed to identity theft and fraud. And our latest research shows that older Americans are scammed out of about $3 billion every single year. Making sure that all Ohioans are not only aware of the latest fraud schemes, but are also armed with the tools and resources to prevent and recover from fraud is the goal of our AARP Fraud Watch Network. So I was pleased to represent AARP last week when the Ohio Attorney General’s Office held a press conference to launch “Ohio Protects”, a new multi-media outreach initiative to increase Ohioans’ awareness of the most common scams, fraud, and identity theft and how they can protect themselves.