{"id":983,"date":"2026-09-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/older-adults-report-lack-of-genuine-friendships-despite-scammer-attention\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:00:00","slug":"older-adults-report-lack-of-genuine-friendships-despite-scammer-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/older-adults-report-lack-of-genuine-friendships-despite-scammer-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Adults Report Lack of Genuine Friendships Despite Scammer Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A contributor to MarketWatch has expressed frustration regarding the social isolation experienced in later life, noting that genuine connections are rare. The writer highlighted a troubling dynamic where older individuals are frequently overlooked by their peers for friendship, yet become targets for scammers seeking financial exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d rather leave my estate to people who spent time with me because they genuinely valued my company,&#8221; the author wrote, emphasizing a desire for authentic relationships over material wealth. The statement underscores a growing concern about loneliness among seniors and the vulnerability it creates for fraudsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MarketWatch contributor reflects on the paradox of being shunned by peers while attracting predatory scammers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2125,93,110,679,2124],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-elderly","tag-markets","tag-marketwatch","tag-scams","tag-social-isolation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}