Join AARP Sacramento, the DFPI, and the AARP Fraud Watch Network for a FREE Operation Protect Veterans Workshop. Learn ways to spot, prevent, and report scams. We will have fraud and scam resources for veterans and military families.

Veterans, service members and their families are nearly 40 percent more likely to lose money to scams than civilians, according to a 2021 AARP survey. Roughly one-third of military members and veterans who received a service-related scam solicitation fell victim to it, and nearly half were deceived into signing over benefits to a criminal, the survey found.

AARP will be distributing their Watchdog Alert Handbook: Veterans Edition (https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/home-and-family/voices/veterans/2022/04/watchdog-alert-fraud-handbook-veterans-aarp.pdf).