“My mother is 85 years old. She was called by the so-called police commissioner from the neighboring town who told her that her credit card was used fraudulently on the internet. I do not know how he managed to bamboozle it, because mom was never particularly naive, but thread by needle, he managed to extract the number of the credit card, its expiration date and the code at the back of the card… ” says Catherine. Like many elderly people, the mother of this Parisian woman has been the target of scammers who attack a population that she thinks is more gullible. But is this the case?
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Indeed, it seems that judgment can wane over the years for several reasons. "This can in particular be indicative of pathologies that we discover in this way," said Dr. Christophe Bouché, psychiatrist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. Those most at risk of developing dementia are more likely to be victimized by scammers, such as
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