{"id":2695,"date":"2016-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/finras-senior-helpline-working-combat-elder-financial-fraud\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:38:24","slug":"finras-senior-helpline-working-combat-elder-financial-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/finras-senior-helpline-working-combat-elder-financial-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Is FINRA\u2019s Senior Helpline Working to Combat Elder Financial Fraud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Is-FINRA\u2019s-Senior-Helpline-Working-to-Combat-Elder-Financial-Fraud.jpg\" alt=\"Is FINRA\u2019s Senior Helpline Working to Combat Elder Financial Fraud? on silverlaw.com\" width=\"405\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Is-FINRA\u2019s-Senior-Helpline-Working-to-Combat-Elder-Financial-Fraud.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Is-FINRA\u2019s-Senior-Helpline-Working-to-Combat-Elder-Financial-Fraud-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Is-FINRA\u2019s-Senior-Helpline-Working-to-Combat-Elder-Financial-Fraud-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>FINRA recognizes that our seniors are especially vulnerable to financial fraud\u2014is HELPS helping?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2015, FINRA launched a new program called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccaberabin.com\/finra-provides-preliminary-analysis-of-its-senior-citizen-helpline\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HELPS<\/span><\/a>, a hotline for senior investors with questions about the legitimacy of their investments. The program is intended to help combat elder financial fraud, which is rampant across the US, but especially prevalent in South Florida, which is already a hotbed of national and international <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/07\/29\/south-florida-is-the-organized-fraud-capital-of-america\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fraud<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior investors are especially vulnerable because of health and memory problems like Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia as well as a lack of education about the changing financial environment and new investment products. To make the matter worse, unethical brokers may particularly target seniors in order to take advantage of their vulnerabilities, aiming to convincing them to purchase risky and expensive investments, and, on occasion, attempting to directly steal their funds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/finras-senior-helpline-working-combat-elder-financial-fraud\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Is FINRA\u2019s Senior Helpline Working to Combat Elder Financial Fraud?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINRA recognizes that our seniors are especially vulnerable to financial fraud\u2014is HELPS helping? In 2015, FINRA launched a new program called HELPS, a hotline for senior investors with questions about the legitimacy of their investments. The program is intended to help combat elder financial fraud, which is rampant across the US, but especially prevalent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[582],"tags":[285,286],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elder-fraud","tag-combat-elder","tag-financial-fraud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is FINRA\u2019s Senior Helpline Working to Combat Elder Financial Fraud? &#8212; Securities Arbitration Lawyers Blog &#8212; September 5, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the new article Is FINRA\u2019s Senior Helpline Working to Combat Elder Financial Fraud? on silverlaw.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/finras-senior-helpline-working-combat-elder-financial-fraud\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Is FINRA\u2019s Senior Helpline Working to Combat Elder Financial Fraud? 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