LifeSmart Senior Services

04/07/2026

Come out and see us at the Kendall County Job Fair!

04/07/2026

Come see us at the ECC Job Fair!

ECC will host its third annual Job Fair on Wednesday, April 22, from 9 am to 12 pm in the Building J Events Center.

02/13/2026

04/29/2025

If you're a licensed agent (or thinking about getting licensed) and want to expand into the Medicare market with top carriers, training, and support, let's connect! Scan the QR code to get started today!

04/26/2025

Feeling blue and it seems bigger than usual? There's good news: Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) covers one depression screening per year to find out if you have symptoms of depression. With that information, you can start moving in a positive direction.

04/21/2025

https://news.va.gov/139536/empowering-caregivers-connection-peer-support/

Caregiving can be a deeply rewarding journey, but it also can be overwhelming and isolating. That’s why support and connection can make all the difference.

04/21/2025

The Tariff Scams are Coming

As they always do when something is prominent in the news, scammers are eager to take advantage of the situation for new scams. In the last few months scammers have registered more than 300 websites including one entitled "U.S. Customs and Tariffs" that we can expect they will be using to scam businesses and individuals into making payments. We can expect companies and even individuals to start receiving phishing emails with phony invoices for goods that contain an indication of a charge for the tariffs and direction to the phony AI created websites to make the payments.

Another tariff related scam starts with an email that appears to come from Federal Express, UPS or some other delivery service claiming that they have a package for you, but in order to have it delivered you need to pay a tariff through a link to a legitimate appearing, but phony website. In a variation on the previous delivery scam, someone posing as a Federal Express or other delivery service employee actually comes to your home the day after you received a delivery asking you to pay for the tariff on the delivery you received. In this case the scammer has learned of the delivery through hacking your computer.

TIPS

The truth is that tariffs are typically paid by importers when goods enter the country. These costs are often passed on to consumers as part of the purchase price of the product, but are not included as a separate item on a bill for a consumer good. Anyone or any company that is not an importer receiving a bill asking them to pay a tariff is being contacted by a scammer and you should ignore it. Also, neither Federal Express nor any other delivery service collects tariffs from people to whom they deliver items.

*Article by Steven Weisman, Esq.
--Scamicide.com