Sun City Center Computer Club
Meeting Presentation

  

Cybercriminals Are Targeting Seniors: How to Stay One Step Ahead
This presentation will explore these evolving scams, explain how they work, and provide practical strategies you and your loved ones can use to recognize, avoid, and report fraud—so you can stay one step ahead of the scammers.

Your presenter is Judy Taylour

Cybercriminals Are Targeting Seniors: How to Stay One Step Ahead

   Identity theft, phishing, vishing, spoofing, and other types of fraud increasingly target older adults. According to 2025 Federal Bureau of Investigation data, people age 60 and older filed more than 201,000 complaints, with reported losses totaling nearly $7.75 billion. That is a dramatic increase from 2024. 

Scammers continue to develop new and more sophisticated ways to target older adults. Some of the most prominent include: 

•        AI-powered impersonation scams using cloned voices, images, or videos to impersonate a grandchild, family member, government official, or other trusted person.

•        Investment and “pig butchering” scams that build trust through romance, friendship, or social media before steering victims toward convincing but fraudulent investment opportunities.

•        Tech support impersonation scams in which criminals claim your computer is infected, gain remote access, and then steal money or personal information.

•        Government and benefit impersonation scams in which victims are threatened with the loss of Social Security, Medicare, or other benefits unless they pay immediately.

•        Cryptocurrency scams, including schemes that pressure victims to send money through cryptocurrency ATMs or kiosks.

 This presentation will explore these evolving scams, explain how they work, and provide practical strategies you and your loved ones can use to recognize, avoid, and report fraud—so you can stay one step ahead of the scammers.

Your Presenter is Judy Taylour

AI Primer

AI is finding its way into all sorts of things. Many of us are using AI, or at least being exposed to it. We have seen how many of these AI tools
can fool our senses of sight and sound. So what is behind all of this Artificial Intelligence? This presentation will attempt to give you some
insight into what’s behind the curtain. It will explore Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, the differences between software and AI, and
look at the technology at the center of AI - the neural network processor that will populate future large scale data centers.

Your Presenter is Phil Sorrentino