To protect the public, especially senior citizens, against telemarketing fraud, including fraud over the Internet, and to authorize an educational campaign to improve senior citizens' ability to protect themselves against telemarketing fraud.
Senior citizens are often the target of telemarketing fraud.
The Administration on Aging was formed, in part, to provide senior citizens with the resources, information, and assistance their special circumstances require. Senior citizens need to be warned of the dangers of telemarketing fraud before they become victims of such fraud. It is the purpose of this title to protect senior citizens, through education and outreach, from the dangers of telemarketing fraud and fraud over the Internet and to facilitate the investigation and prosecution of fraudulent telemarketers. The Secretary shall determine the means to disseminate information under this section. In disseminating information under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to areas with high concentrations of senior citizens.