If your parents are getting older, please warn them about telemarketers and scams: the new craze is posing as telemarketers to "update" information, and then using the info to clean out bank accounts.

As Mr. Guthrie sat home alone ? surrounded by his Purple Heart medal, photos of eight children and mementos of a wife who was buried nine years earlier ? the telephone rang day and night. After criminals tricked him into revealing his banking information, they went to Wachovia, the nation?s fourth-largest bank, and raided his account, according to banking records.

If you know someone who could be swindled like this, pass the article to them.