THE SENIORS CENTER OUR GENERATION targets senior citizens with scare tactics to get them to send money!

My sister and I discovered in January of this year that my 88 year old mother was sending money to this group 'The Seniors Center' and many other non-profit political groups. All of the groups had one thing in common - other than my mother's money - the materials in their mailing were scare tactics. 'Save social security', 'Threat to our social security system', 'Help us fight this threat', and on and on. Many of the groups, like the one first mentioned here, were listed on scam reports and watch lists.

It was heartbreaking to see my mother's face while we explained that these groups that she thought needed her help, were actually scaming her! Part of the way they did this was by addressing her by her first name, mulitiple times throughout the materials they would send.  On any given day of the week she will recieve 10, 15, even 20 different mailings from groups asking for money.

As for the 'The Seniors Center' - I called them back in January, insisting that they remove my mother's name and address from their mailing list. At which time I was told that they would, but it would probably take 6 to 8 weeks before she stopped getting their mailings. Well, it's now been 3 months since that call and she is still getting crap from them.

We now have to watch all of her mail - coming in and going out. With many of the groups, finding a number to call is next to impossible. So, the best we have come up with is to keep the permanent marker by the door and as they arrive in her mail box, we write on them "REFUSED: RETURN TO SENDOR". At least this way they will be out a little bit of money for the return postage cost. It ain't much - but it is something!!