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WLRN Public Media | By Sergio R. Bustos

This story was originally produced by WLRN, South Florida’s only public radio station at 91.3 FM, as part of a content sharing partnership with Miami’s Community News. Read more at WLRN.org .

A growing number of scammers are targeting senior citizens with more and more sophisticated schemes — both online and on the telephone — to steal their money, says Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, who created a special unit to investigate cyber and economic crimes.

“From AI-generated scams to cryptocurrency theft and robocalls threatening arrest, these crimes are devastating,” Cordero-Stutz told a U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging during a field hearing in Doral on Thursday morning. (Wa

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