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Next a Senate Aging Committee hearing on phone scams targeting seniors. Witnesses talked about a particular scam where someone pretended to be a Family Member or loved one to get a victim to wire them money. Americans lost more than 73 million to phone scams last year. This is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon. Ive asked all of you to join the table instead of two panels, because we have a vote that is being called around 2 20. So i want to take the advantage of going ahead and getting all of your testimony. This hearing is the latest in a series of investigations the committee has conducted on the devastating impact that fraud and scams have on Senior Citizens over the last two years. We have explored the rise of jamaican lottery scams, tax refund schemes and Social Security and medicare fraud. So today we are going to examine a what is now making a comeback in the scam world. And its called the grandparent or emergency scam. Its quite despicable. It preys on a Senior Citizens willingn

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