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The Grandparent scam is a scam in which a person will call a victim and say that a loved one is in trouble. Sometimes, a person pretending to be a lawyer or a loved one asking for money. The victim is told to purchase gift cards and give the card numbers to the scamster over the phone.

Tech support scampers try to trick victims into believing they need help with their computers.

Some scam artists pretend to be connected with Microsoft, Apple, or a security software company and claim to have detected a threat to the person's computer. Other scams feature planted website ads or pop-ups that display warning messages, some even featuring a clock ticking down the minutes before the victim's hard drive will be destroyed by a virus — unless he or she calls a toll-free number for assistance in deactivating the threat. They will often ask for remote access to your computer to run fake diagnostic tests and pretend to find defects that need fixing.

They will try to get you to pay for unneeded repairs and software with gift cards.

The IRS has a tax-scams-consumer-alerts website.

There are 10 things you can do to prevent fraud.

The National Council on Aging has a list of top 10 financial scam targeting seniors.