Can They Do This? Well...They ARE!

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Monday November 25, 2013 · 11:00 PM PST

2013/11/25 · 23:00

Talking to a friend about my experiences with political mail, how it targets the elderly, entices them to send money then continues to suck money from them with more beligured tales of woe bemoaning issues on how Social Security is coming to an end, Gun Control, Immigrants, Impeachment...the list goes on and on.

My friend said she'd been wanting to talk to me about another scam she believed was being initiated by one hairdresser that did hair for elderly ladies. As it turned out, it was a lot more that one lady that did hair for those in their 70s and up. She was the common thread however, in all three cases of these older ladies, all within a 15 mile distance of one another, all in L.A. County, who did not know one another but the same thing happened to all of them and all had the same hairdresser.

Heavy drum roll...... to be continued...Dum DUH DUM DUM...

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Saturday September 07, 2013 · 12:20 AM PDT

2013/09/07 · 00:20

It started in May of this year with a random letter from some political project to 'save social security' addressed to my mother who is 85 and about mid-stage Alzheimer's. This letter indicated President Obama was going to put an end to Social Security and this was happening very soon. My mom sent in $50 in support of legislation that would work to ensure the continuation of Social Security. This scared her very badly as Soc. Sec. is most of her income.
The onslaught of political mail that followed was massive. I only recently learned many of these "non-profit" political concerns are sub-projects of another 'umbrella' having some inspiring name that makes you want to take your hat off and salute. The picture is of the mail collected over the course of about 1 month. It is a lot bigger now.
Apparently mother's donation got her on a list of those that give cash and was sold to every non-profit agency in the U.S. In particular is this outfit that calls themselves the American Federation of Responsible Citizens. Their mail is specifically targeted to the elderly and written in a consistent formula of 1) Personal Subject Matter; danger, make the reader afraid 2) create a sense of urgency 3) hit them up for money and make sure they know this is the ONLY method that will work to undo what was so eloquently explained in #1.

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