The school year is winding down, but summer scammers are gearing up to trick consumers in the coming months.

Our Clayton Dalton sat down with the Better Business Bureau, Greater Kentucky Region to find out what you can do to protect yourself and your money.

With summer right around the corner, sunshine and warmer weather are on their way.

But summer also brings the potential for an increase in scams.

Heather Cleary with the Better Business Bureau, Greater Kentucky Region, says it's important to stay vigilant in detecting and avoiding scams, seeking your money and sensitive personal information.

A lot of scammers love to use the names of businesses and organizations that we all recognize, such as Amazon or any more pretending to be with the IRS.

The US Postal Service indicating that you've got a delivery waiting for you that they couldn't get to you for whatever reason, and please click this link.

If somebody hits you out of the blue with a text, an email, a phone call, and they want you to act now, act quickly.

Already the red flags should be going up and many ways they achieve this is by making you think danger is imminent.

A favorite one they like is, for instance, saying that you miss jury duty.

That's a very popular one that's been going around.

And yeah, you got to show up if you've been called for jury duty, but they're not going to warn you that they're coming to serve a warrant on you for missing that.

Anybody that tries to strike fear into your heart right away already is a reason to put on the brakes and look into it more carefully, because chances are it's a complete scam.

As technology evolves, so do con artists and their tactics to try and trick consumers.

The scammers are still using the whole gamut of ways to contact people, from good old fashioned telephone calls to texting to messaging over social media platforms like Facebook and Google Hangout platforms like that.

Any number of ways.

And once in a while, someone will still get a good old mail or a letter in the mail trying to lure them into some sort of a scam.

Any kind of website that's out there and social media does make it a lot easier for people to become susceptible to these sorts of things.

And so you really have to have your guard up, if something sounds too good to be true or just sounds a little odd and you want to take some extra steps to protect yourself so that you don't fall for it.

It's easy to think that older people are more likely to fall for scams, but Cleary says that's a misconception.

Anyone can be a target for a scam, plain and simple, and the more devices you have and the more you interact on social media, possibly the more wide open you are setting yourself up to be targeted by a scammer.

However, studies from the Better Business Bureau over the years have shown that while the older Americans do lose the largest amount of money when they fall for a scam, it's the younger crowd that tends to fall for more of the scams.

People in the 20s, the 30 year range of age.

And it could be any number of reasons.

They think they know everything, or they have the most devices or they're just, you know, so busy with life.

But yeah, so that's kind of a misconception.

People have, people younger can actually fall for more scams than the older ones.

But again, anyone can be a target.

So it's certainly bodes well if you protect yourself and warm those around you.

You may be kicking your feet up at the pool soon, but Cleary says don't get too relaxed about keeping your money and information secure.

Whether you're a business, whether you're a consumer, you want to protect your money.

So if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

If you're asked to act quickly right now before you can look further into it, that's a bad idea.

And check with the Better Business Bureau.

If you're not sure.

Log on to our website eyeborgs.

Find out what you can about the business or contact us through that website.

And usually one of our staff can assist you and help you figure out whether or not it's the real deal or not.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Clayton Dalton.

Thank you, Clayton, and thank you, Heather Clary.

To search or report scams with the Better Business Bureau, go to the website online at eyeborgs.

Scam tracker.

All one word.