CBS Evening News - 1995-12-07
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[0:03] A nationwide crackdown on telephone
[0:05] fraud. Federal agents start rounding up
[0:08] suspects who allegedly ripped off the
[0:10] elderly over the phone. Who's answering
[0:13] the phone at your healthc care company?
[0:15] Any eye on America investigation. And
[0:18] millions of miles from Earth tonight,
[0:21] Galileo's dramatic close encounter with
[0:24] the planet Jupiter.
[0:28] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:32] Rather.
[0:33] >> Good evening. The FBI today reached out
[0:35] and touched hundreds of alleged
[0:37] telephone scam artists accused of
[0:39] ripping off billions of dollars from
[0:41] this nation's elderly. Arrest warrants
[0:43] went out for more than 400 telemarketers
[0:46] in 15 states. They were stung by elderly
[0:49] people working with law enforcement. Jim
[0:52] Stewart has the story and the telephone
[0:54] tapes.
[0:55] It was the latest crackdown on one of
[0:57] the fastest growing scams in the
[0:59] country. Telemarketing con artists who
[1:01] prey on the elderly. The Justice
[1:03] Department today estimated losses are
[1:05] now approaching $40 billion annually
[1:08] among older Americans.
[1:09] >> What they have worked 40 or 50 years to
[1:12] accumulate can be stolen from them in a
[1:15] mere one or two years.
[1:17] >> With the help of dozens of elderly
[1:18] victims, FBI agents tape recorded some
[1:21] of the more recent scams. In this one, a
[1:23] man in Las Vegas tries to bully a woman
[1:25] in Denver into paying $500 in order to
[1:28] win a larger prize.
[1:30] >> Is $500, knowing that you have $50,000
[1:34] as a result going to be any problem for
[1:36] you?
[1:37] >> Yes, because I don't have $500.
[1:40] >> I need some cooperation from you. And if
[1:43] I don't get it, you're hurting yourself