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If you want to buy something off a social media site, local officials are asking people to really think about who really might be pretending to be the seller.

If you want to buy something off a social media site, local officials are asking people to really think about who really might be pretending to be the seller.

North Carolina's Attorney General Josh Stein recently won a lawsuit shutting down a massive robocall operation out of Texas. According to the Attorney General's office - in 2019 and 2020 alone - the companies Rising Eagle Capital Group LLC, JSquared Telecom LLC, and Rising Eagle Capital Group-Cayman bombarded North Carolinians with more than 75 million robocalls. Stein said Americans lose about $30 billion each year to fraud by scam callers, who intimidate consumers with threats of arrest. ...

The Better Business Bureau says it's getting an influx of scam reports on a device that could catch you off guard.

Seventy percent of those who reach age 65 will need long-term care services or expensive in-home nursing care, and 42% of it nationwide is paid for by Medicaid. With long-term care costing nearly $100,000 a year in Nebraska as of 2022, assets can quickly be wiped out. Anne Mangiameli, an attorney in Omaha, said states are required to "recover" funds Medicaid spends on in-home or out-of-home nursing care for those 55 and older, but the Spousal Impoverishment program allows the healthy spouse to preserve a portion of their assets. ...