South Australian seniors are being urged to be aware of a scam website that attempts to charge applicants a fee in exchange for a Seniors Card.

The misleading website - called The Seniors Assistant - claims to specialise in ‘providing assistance and consultation services for several senior-related applications and processes such as the Seniors Card.

The legitimate SA Seniors Card is always free of charge and applicants are never requested to pay a fee or disclose their bank, credit card or PayPal details in exchange for membership.

The official SA Seniors Card website is www.seniorscard.sa.gov.au.Look out for the official Government of South Australia and Seniors Card logos to ensure you are accessing the correct website before applying for membership.

If you have provided payment to an unofficial website:

• contact your bank immediately,
• make a report to Scamwatch, the Australian Government’s National Anti-Scam Centre at www.scamwatch.gov.au, and
• make a report to the Australian Cyber Security Centre at www.cyber.gov.au/report-and-recover/report.

If you have provided payment to an unofficial website, please contact your bank immediately and make a report to Scamwatch, the Australian Government’s National Anti-Scam Centre at www.scamwatch.gov.au.

Seniors Card has been providing older South Australians with benefits and discounts for more than 30 years.

Applicants must be aged 60 or older, be a permanent South Australian resident and not working than 20 hours per week in paid employment (part-time and casual employees may average their hours over a 12-month period).

Today it has more than 400,000 members,

For any other queries, contact the Seniors Card on 1800 819 961 (free call) or email seniorscard@sa.gov.au.

For more information about protecting yourself from scams, click here.