{"id":117875,"date":"2019-05-15T07:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=117875"},"modified":"2019-05-15T07:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:12:51","slug":"stopping-senior-scams-workshop-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/05\/15\/stopping-senior-scams-workshop-set\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stopping Senior Scams&#8217; workshop planned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BOWLING GREEN &#8212;&nbsp;U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) will host a \u201cStopping Senior Scams Workshop\u201d on Thursday, May 30, starting at 10 a.m., in the Penta Career Center in Perrysburg.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will consist of speakers from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the IRS Taxpayer Advocate to raise awareness of common scams that target seniors and offer tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illegal robocalls are on the rise &#8211;\u00a0Ohioans received 1.7 billion\u00a0in 2018. These calls are costly, with\u00a022 million Americans losing a total of $9.5 billion\u00a0in robocall scams in 2016 alone.\u00a0Latta is the Republican Leader on the Energy and Commerce Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, and has been leading efforts to address consumer scams, particularly robocalls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His legislation, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/latta.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=402108\">STOP Robocalls Act<\/a>\u00a0(H.R.2386), would help prevent bad actors from fraudulently calling consumers by giving oversight agencies and private companies additional tools to block\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information BOWLING GREEN &#8212;&nbsp;U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) will host a \u201cStopping Senior Scams Workshop\u201d on Thursday, May 30, starting at 10 a.m., in the Penta Career Center in Perrysburg.&nbsp; The event will consist of speakers from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the IRS Taxpayer Advocate to raise awareness of common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 12:09:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}