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I know is a little off topic, but these scams are getting more and more awful and especially pray on the older generation. I have a client in their very late 70s that got scammed out of of $50,000 from a fake Publisher's Clearing House scam. The scammers called her on her home phone and told her she had won $5,000,000 in the publisher's clearing house, but she needed to go ahead and take care of the taxes now. This apparently went on for a few weeks. The scammers told her how to redrawn money from her account and send a cashier's check. They even stayed on the phone with her while she was in the drive through at the bank (bank lobbies were closed due to COVID) to get the check. What alerted her daughter who looks after her, was that the lady's stock broker called to let the daughter know some stock was sold and the funds moved to the lady's checking account. But, by this time it was too late and the money was gone.