Monday, November 30, 2015

Call for new Laws when elders get scammed online @Law

Call for law reform to help families step in 

More and more senior citizens are feeling comfortable on the internet, but there are concerns their new-found online confidence makes them a target for scammers.
MYKHAYLO PALINCHAK/SUPPLIED
More and more senior citizens are feeling comfortable on the internet, but there are concerns their new-found online confidence makes them a target for scammers.
Increasing internet use by older people has made them such an appetising target for online scammers a law change is needed, a lawyer believes. 
It is too costly and difficult to legally intervene in an older relative's finances when they are getting scammed, especially when they have mental problems such as Alzheimer's disease, Auckland lawyer Henry Chellew said.
"A heap more older people using the internet and some very sophisticated internet fraud means a lot of older people are at risk, especially those ... who are deeply delusional but still functional," Chellew, of firm Stainton Chellew, said.
As people lived longer and increasingly dealt with conditions such as Alzheimer's, more of his clients were struggling to persuade older relatives what they were convinced was an online windfall or chance to help someone was really a scam.
Legislation on personal property rights and mental competency was drafted nearly 30 years ago, pre-internet, and needed overhauling. 
While enduring powers of attorney let families act on elder relatives' behalf, it did not stop them giving their bank account numbers to scammers.
In such cases, the family could obtain a doctor's certificate declaring the person mentally incapable, and then, via the Family Court, take over their bank accounts.
However the process was slow and expensive, providing a window of opportunity for scammers, he said. 
"Perhaps a half-way house is needed – a targeted approach to deal with someone's financial problem area, without stripping them entirely of control," he said.
A Wellington-based  spokesman for over-65s charity Age Concern said scams targeting the elderly had increased.
But caution was needed since three-quarters of elder abuse, including financial abuse, was committed by family members, Age Concern Wellington's Ken Daniels said.
"It's important to protect the free will of a mentally competent older person ... but the line becomes blurred as they approach dementia and it's incredibly difficult sometimes to intervene."
Powers of attorney and Family Court-ordered intervention should be easier and cheaper, as long as protections were in place.
Chris Hails, a representative of Internet safety group NetSafe said because older people are online more and tend to be more trusting, they are getting scammed more often.
"For people who grew up in an era where you could leave your door unlocked, now they're basically stepping into the Wild West."
Five years ago the agency had 1700 scam reports a year, and now there were 700 a month.
Scammers took $40,000 on average per day, for a total this year of $12.5 million, he said.
Online scamming had increased in 2015 and was constantly evolving.
The government's Office for Senior Citizens director Sarah Clark said older people were being targeted by scammers, and should not be ashamed to report it.
"It can be embarrassing to admit that you have been the victim of a scam, but... speaking out may prevent scammers from targeting others."
Family members should also not hesitate to report a loved one getting scammed, as it could prevent them from losing even more.  
ONLINE SCAMS:
Love hurts:
Age Concern in Wellington has noticed a trend this year in online "love scams", where fraudsters use email to hook in lonely older people with promises of true love, only to begin requesting money for supposed medical bills, then vanishing. 
The "retired American colonel":
A Wellington retiree has lost about $80,000 this year after a "serviceman" she met online began asking for help with hospital treatment ahead of a supposed meeting. But with the real-life encounter continually postponed, she eventually saw through the sham and broke off contact. 
The "Swiss architect":
 After establishing an email "relationship" with another elderly Wellington woman, the scammer began asking for money for blood transfusions and other bills. The woman lost thousands of dollars, but still believes she is in love and refuses to accept her architect is not real.
STAY SAFE ONLINE
The Office for Senior Citizen's SuperSeniors website provides up-to-date information on new online trends, tricks and traps.
You can report scams via NetSafe, which also provides step-by-step guides on computer security: www.netsafe.org.nz
Got an emailed offer that seems to good to be true? Check the Department of Internal Affairs' list of current reported scams.
The Consumer Affairs department also carries scam alerts and this checklist on avoiding them:
DO:
  • Install and update security software and firewall
  • Ignore unsolicited emails and don't click on any links in them
  • Be wary of following links in unexpected 'pop-up' boxes 
  • Use long, random passwords 
  • If in doubt, delete
DON'T:
  • Call telephone numbers in spam emails
  • Use public computers for internet banking 
  • Use auto-complete software for online forms
 - Stuff


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Refugee Resettlement Facts #SyrianRefugees #Trump #Trump2016 #TeamTrump

 SheetReaders, in honor of World Refugee Day, today June 20th, 2013, I am happy to report we have a new fact sheet!


Since we first posted a fact sheet in 2007 and updated it again in 2010 we have had 31,236 visitors access this post.
Please help spread the word on the new 2013 Fact Sheet a collaborative effort between RRW and others!

1.   Since 1975, the U.S. has resettled over 3 million refugees, with annual admissions figures ranging from a high of 207,000 in 1980 to a low of 27,110 in 2002 (in the aftermath of 911) .
The average number of refugees admitted annually since 1980 is about 98,000. Additionally, in recent years, another 40,000 or more per year come in as asylum seekers and Cuban/Haitian entrants – all with the same rights and entitlements as refugees.
All these flows detonate their own chain migration flows in addition to the refugee influx.  These follow-on flows have easily multiplied the original admission numbers by a factor of 4 or more.
The quota for 2013 is 70,000 and it looks like it will be met this year.  There is strong political pressure to get refugee numbers back to over 100,000.

2.  The U.S. takes more than twice as many refugees as all countries from the rest of the industrialized world combined.

3. One of the operative assumptions of those in the refugee industry is that, since the U.S. is behind most of the chaos in the world – Syria, here we come!, it is morally obligated to take the lead in resettling the world’s refugees.  Yet, for 2012 the leading countries, in order of numbers of refugees sent to the U.S., were Bhutan, Burma, Iraq, Somalia, Cuba,  Dem. Rep. Congo, Iran, Eritrea, Sudan.  All America’s fault?  In very recent memory the MSM was celebrating Bhutan and suggesting the U.S. had something to learn from the Bhutanese concept of a “Product of National Happiness”.
Ironically, the U.S. refugee program diverts resources from assistance on the ground to those very countries in the developing world which carry the main burden of refugee crises.

4. In recent years up to 95% of the refugees coming to the U.S. were referred by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) or were the relatives of UN-picked refugees.  Until the late 90’s the U.S. picked the large majority of refugees for resettlement in the U.S.
Considering that the refugee influx causes increases in all legal and illegal immigration as family and social networks are established in the U.S., the U.N. is effectively dictating much of U.S. immigration policy.

5. NIMBYists gone wild: As a Senator, Sam Brownback harshly rejected the resettlement of Somali Bantu in his own state even though he was a major advocate among evangelicals for increased refugee immigration to the U.S..
The state of Delaware has resettled less than 10 refugees annually in recent years even though then Sen. Joe Biden was a sponsor of the 1980 Refugee Act  – the bill which defines the refugee program we have today.
Upon entry, a network of private, “nonprofit” agencies (so-called “voluntary agencies”) selects the communities where refugees will live. The agencies are either headquartered in Washington DC or have lobbying offices there.
Washington DC took less than 200 refugees between 2007 and 2012.

6. According to a July 2012 GAO report (Refugee Resettlement:
Greater Consultation with Community Stakeholders Could Strengthen Program:  “most public entities such as public schools and health departments generally said that voluntary agencies notified them of the number of refugees expected to arrive in the coming year, but did not consult them regarding the number of refugees they could serve”.

7. This same GAO report quotes a state official who notes “that local affiliate funding is based on the number of refugees they serve, so affiliates (private contractors) have an incentive to maintain or increase the number of refugees they resettle each year rather than allowing the number to decrease.”

8. Refugee resettlement is a self-perpetuating global enterprise.  Staff and management of the hundreds of taxpayer supported U.S. contractors are largely refugees or immigrants whose purpose is to gain entry for more refugees, usually for their co-ethnics.

9.  According to David Robinson, a former acting director of the State Department’s refugee bureau, writing about the refugee contractors: “the federal government provides about ninety percent of its collective budget” and its lobbying umbrella “wields enormous influence over the Administration’s refugee admissions policy. It lobbies the Hill effectively to increase the number of refugees admitted for permanent resettlement each year ….If there is a conflict of interest, it is never mentioned….  The solution its members offer to every refugee crisis is simplistic and the same: increase the number of admissions to the United States without regard to budgets…” How Public Opinion Shaped Refugee Policy in Kosovo, 2000, David M. Robinson, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA432218
10. According to Ken Tota, Deputy Director at HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement,  Congress has never in his 25-year tenure questioned the refugee quota proposed by the administration. By law, Congress is supposed to consent to the annual quota but obviously refuses to take this role seriously.


680,000 Green Cards Given to #Muslim Immigrants ! @Breitbart


The United States has issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants of Muslim-majority countries, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The green cards were issued within the last five years and will be reissued again in five years. Among the people who received green cards are individuals who entered the United States as refugees.
The data, released by Senator 
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
82%
, adds that these, “refugees have instant access to federal welfare and entitlements, along with local benefits and education services; these costs are not offset.”
The release from Sessions notes that “Assuming no change in visa policy, the U.S. can expect to give green cards to another 680,000 more migrants from these countries over the next five years… A green card entitles recipients to access federal benefits, lifetime residency, work authorization, and a direct route to becoming a U.S. citizen.”
The number, 680,000 isn’t “an estimate of total migration, as it does not include temporary migrants who return home, nor is it an estimate of population change, as it does not include births or deaths, among other considerations.”
President Obama has also directed his administration to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees by 2016.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, one-quarter of the U.S. population, over 41 million, is now either foreign-born or has foreign-born parents. Data from Pew Polling shows that 83% percent of the American public oppose increasing the baseline for immigration and believe that it should either be frozen or reduced.
Below is a list of the green cards given out from fiscal year 2009 to fiscal year 2013:
Pakistan (83K), Iraq (83K), Bangladesh (75K), Iran (73K), Egypt (45K), Somalia (31K), Uzbekistan (24K), Turkey (22K), Morocco (22K), Jordan (20K), Albania (20K), Lebanon (16K), Yemen (16K), Indonesia (15K), Syria (14K), Sudan (13K), Afghanistan (11K), Sierra Leone (10K), Guinea (8K), Senegal (7K), Saudi Arabia (7K), Algeria (7K), Kazakhstan (7K), Kuwait (5K), Gambia (5K), United Arab Emirates (4K), Azerbaijan (4K), Mali (3K), Burkina Faso (3K), Kyrgyzstan (3K), Kosovo (3K), Mauritania (2K), Tunisia (2K), Tajikistan (2K), Libya (2K), Turkmenistan (1K), Qatar (1K), Chad (1K)

Friday, November 27, 2015

#UN adopts 6 resolutions condemning #Israel — no mention of “Palestinian” jihad incitement or knife attacks @JIhadwatchRS

By Robert Spencer on Nov 25, 2015 06:31 am

UN adopts 6 resolutions condemning Israel — no mention of “Palestinian” jihad incitement or knife attacks
A patriotic American administration that was a reliable ally of Israel, and recognized the importance of Israel as the only free republic in the Middle East, would withdraw funding from the United Nations and expel it from New York. It has strayed far from its original mission and is now little more than a propaganda […]
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New Glazov Gang: The Dreadful Lessons of ISIS’s Paris Massacre
By Jamie Glazov on Nov 25, 2015 06:19 am

New Glazov Gang: The Dreadful Lessons of ISIS’s Paris Massacre
In this special edition of The Glazov Gang, I was joined by Stephen Coughlin, the co-founder of UnconstrainedAnalytics.org and the author of the new book, Catastrophic Failure. He came on the show to discuss The Dreadful Lessons of ISIS’s Paris Massacre, shedding troubling light on Jihadists’ dire warning to America. [See also Stephen on the Glazov […]
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#Muslim Brotherhood group rallies not against jihad terror, but against “Islamophobia” @JihadwatchRS

By Robert Spencer on Nov 25, 2015 09:22 am

SDSU: Muslim Brotherhood-linked student group rallies not against jihad terror, but against “Islamophobia”
“A list of demands posted on Monday to the SDSU Muslim Students Association Facebook page includes: zero tolerance for ‘Islamophobic’ speech.” In other words, they want the university to set them up as arbiters of what is acceptable speech, so that they can stifle any criticism of Islam and jihad terror, in accord with Sharia […]
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Washington Post: “Want to stop Islamic terrorism? Be nicer to Muslims.”
By Robert Spencer on Nov 25, 2015 07:06 am

Washington Post: “Want to stop Islamic terrorism? Be nicer to Muslims.”
At last, we have hit on the solution to the global jihad onslaught: just be nicer to Muslims, you greasy Islamophobes. All those people sitting in those Paris cafes — just think of how mean they were being to Muslims. Some of them were probably even drinking alcohol. Oh, the Islamophobia! And those people in […]
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New Islamic State video message to US: “We will drown all of you in blood”
By Robert Spencer on Nov 25, 2015 06:48 am

New Islamic State video message to US: “We will drown all of you in blood”
All of us? You mean, even those of us who hav carefully avoided saying or doing anything that might offend Muslims, for fear of “provoking” them and “poking them in the eye”? Can’t a good dhimmi catch a break? (Thanks to Pamela Geller.)
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#Muslim mob sets #Christian TV station on fire @JIhadwatchRS

By Robert Spencer on Nov 25, 2015 05:38 pm

Pakistan: Muslim mob sets Christian TV station on fire
“The station management had denounced past threats and despite many requests, police and authorities did not provide the necessary security.” This was because they held a point of view similar to that of those who issued the threats. “Karachi, masked men set Christian television station on fire,” by Jibran Khan, Asia News, November 25, 2015 […]
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Global Jihad? Never Heard of It: Berkeley’s Bazian Still Hyping ‘Islamophobia’
By Cinnamon Stillwell on Nov 25, 2015 01:22 pm

Global Jihad? Never Heard of It: Berkeley’s Bazian Still Hyping ‘Islamophobia’
With global jihad in its ascendancy, UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian delivered a lecture at a private event in Dearborn, Michigan last Friday titled, “Islamaphobia: Muslim in the Public Square.” Given the multiple ISIS attacks on Paris only a week earlier and the fact that French and Belgian authorities continue to hunt down the accomplices, the […]
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Dallas mayor ‘more fearful’ of white men than Syrian refugees
By Robert Spencer on Nov 25, 2015 09:42 am

Dallas mayor ‘more fearful’ of white men than Syrian refugees
“We have got to build a coalition of Middle Eastern states and we need to reach out. They’re Muslims and we have got to use the words carefully to show them that we care about them. ISIS is no more Islamic than the Nazi senior staff was Christian.” The Nazi senior staff didn’t claim to […]
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Thursday, November 26, 2015

Chicago 4 New #LaquanMcDonald VIDEOS - SHOCKING !

HEY #OBAMA ! Yes we DO have POWER to STOP ISIS #SYRIANREFUGEES !!!











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#OBAMA ARMING #ISIS !!! #Trump2016 #TeamTrump @RealDonaldTrump




Rare tweet by media giant alludes to 


sinister Obama policy



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