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Scam savvy

How to protect yourself from con artists who see you as a target

'They said, 'Don't worry.' They took me in a limo to their office. They said, 'Sign here, sign there,' and I did."

And that's how Priscila Nano, 66, a divorcee, came to lose the house in Great Neck that she'd lived in and loved for 29 years.

Nano is not alone. Consumer Action, an advocacy group, reports that, while people older than 60 make up 15 percent of the U.S. population, they...

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