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The Season of good cheer also brings cons and scams that are increasingly sophisticated in the internet age

(The Sheriff’s Office announced that they would be hosting an expert from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday, December 3 at 6 p.m. at the West Gym of the Custer County school about how to avoid scams and the increasing sophistication of many of the scam artists) Unfortunately, the holiday season is accompanied by a flurry of online, mail, and telephone scams, some of them wickedly sophisticated. In our aging community, Custerites will want to be especially attentive to the predatory practices of those who would like to fleece our holiday budgets for themselves. There is ample counsel available from multiple sources. One you may not have availed yourself of is the series of posters taped to the glass partition in the Bassick Place…