Learn How to Outsmart the Scammers

That all-inclusive vacation—is it too good to be true? How about the charmer you met online who professes love and then asks for money?

Consumer advocate and AARP volunteer Mary Bach is sharing her expertise through a web-based video series called Outsmarting the Scammers. AARP Pennsylvania produces the videos, and Bach delivers no-nonsense advice on how to avoid classic scams as well as new ones.

Pennsylvanians reported more than 80,000 cases of fraud to the Federal Trade Commission in 2015. The leading complaints related to debt collection, impostor scams, and telephone and mobile services fraud.

Go to youtube.com/user/theAARPPA to watch the videos. Bach also suggests signing up for watchdog alerts at fraudwatchnetwork.org.