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title: An AARP survey found that a majority of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders age 50 and older said they or their families have been targets of fraud.
metaTitle: "Aapi Seniors Fraud Targets"
slug: aapi-seniors-fraud-targets
date: "2018-09-12T20:15:43-05:00"
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sourcePublisher:
  name: NBC News
  url: nbcnews.to
sourceArticle:
  url: "https://nbcnews.to/2NBWsFc"
legacySlug: an-aarp-survey-found-that-a-majority-of-asian-americans-and-pacific-islanders-age-50-and-older-said-they-or-their-families-have-been-targets-of-fraud
tags: [Consumer Fraud, Voice Spam]
status: published
---

September 12, 2018

The phone call in early June purporting to be from Chinese authorities was, in a word, alarming. The Massachusetts woman who answered it learned she may have been the victim of identity theft.

But after almost a week of corresponding and sharing personal information over the phone in an effort to find how her identity had apparently been stolen things went very wrong very quickly…