Stephanie Benitez has worked 20 years for the FBI. She specializes in bank robbery, crimes against children, pubic corruption, the drone program, coordination with the BAU team (profiler- human behavior patterns) and mass causality- victim response team. Currently, she is working out of the Boulder Sheriff's Office.
Stephanie offered a look into the crime trends in Boulder County. One of her observations was the uptick of crimes since the legalization of marijuana. Additionally, fraud cases have skyrocketing, especially during the pandemic. Elder exploitation is on the rise and the victim is not your stereotypical individual. A recent study reveled the top traits of a typical victim: "Self reliant in decision making, optistimic, above average in financial knowledge, above average income, college educated, a recent health or financial setback and open to listening to new ideas or sales strategies." Over 13% of older Americans will become victims of financial fraud.
The popular current scams are, romance scams, government scams (trying to get access to your computer), virtual kidnapping (phone call reporting they have kidnapped your family member), grandson in jail scam and needs bail money, and sadly scams are already happening with the Marshall Fire. Scam artists prey on our vulnerabilities, using strategies such as Scarcity ("this is last one"), Reciprocity ("I will give you this if….") and Affinity fraud (targeting organizations), Phantom stories, (we all want to believe these sad stories). Another popular scam is coming to your home, offering home repairs and overcharging, or not doing the work at all.
What can you do? Don't be reluctant to say NO or hang up the phone. You can also call and verify a service. Any legitimate company will respect a customer's caution, (and if they don't, another Red Flag!). "Say No, Go, Tell". Get involved: If you see something, tell someone. To learn more go to to the website: IC3.gov. If you fall victim to a fraud, please report it. If reported promptly, more support and assistance can happen. For example, your financial accounts can be frozen, but this needs to happen within 12 hours from the incident.
Dr. Al Carr is currently taking nominations for the Frank McDonough Award. This special award is given to a club member who exemplifies the traits of "Service Above Self". Check with Al if you have questions or would like a nomination form.
Thank you for granting me the opportunity to serve as the president of the Rotary club of Longmont for the 2021–2022 Rotary year.
The upcoming year will be one of continuing change as we start the process of returning to the “new normal“ of in-person meetings. The process is going to be a "crawl, walk, run" and I hope everyone will be patient.
The theme of this rotary year is "Serve to change lives". It will be wonderful to be able to come up with projects to follow this theme and continue to serve our community locally nationally and internationally.
While we will not be able to have in person RYLA again this year, there will be a one day virtual session. With school being in person, I am looking forward to the Young Rotarian‘s being able to start up again in the fall. Our youth are the future of rotary!
My goal this year is to grow our club by a few members and for everyone to think of younger people in the community who would make great Rotarians.
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Stephanie Benitez has worked 20 years for the FBI. She specializes in bank robbery, crimes against children, pubic corruption, the drone program, coordination with the BAU team (profiler- human behavior patterns) and mass causality- victim response team. Currently, she is working out of the Boulder Sheriff's Office. 
Dr. Al Carr is currently taking nominations for the Frank McDonough Award. This special award is given to a club member who exemplifies the traits of "Service Above Self". Check with Al if you have questions or would like a nomination form. 
Our District is working with District 5440 and 5470 to get a specialty Rotary license plate considered by the State Legislature.
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