AARP Hawaii will reach out by telephone to about 45,000 of its members across the state on Saturday from 9:05 a.m. to 10:05 a.m. for a conversation about avoiding financial fraud and identity theft.

The call marks the debut of AARP’s Fraud Watch Network in Hawaii, an educational effort aimed at arming residents with the tools to spot and avoid falling victim to fraud. The public can access an audio stream of the call via http://vekeo.buzz/f0e.

AARP Hawaii State Director Barbara Kim Stanton will moderate the call, which features representatives of local and federal agencies on the front lines of reporting, regulating, and prosecuting fraud. 

Participants will be Scott Spallina, deputy prosecuting attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, which prosecutes cases of fraud and educates the community; Lisa Nakao of the Hawaii Better Business Bureau, one of the agencies residents turn to report fraud and suspected fraud; and Joshua Bailes of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which protects investors from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices in the commodity markets.

Participants can join AARP’s Fraud Watch Network to receive scam alerts and other fraud-avoidance resources. For more information, go to aarp.org/FraudWatchNetwork.