U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer reports one in five Americans over age 65 will be a victim of one security scam or another in their waning years.

It could be a super Ponzi like the $1.2 billion scam run out of the swank Fort Lauderdale law offices of ex-attorney Scott Rothstein. It could be a simply pump-and-dump penny stock scheme or another old standby built on a foreign currency exchange ruse.