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# Don't Go to Dolores Bauer's Party. You'll Be Sorry If You Do.
- URL: https://www.smartseniordaily.com/dont-go-to-dolores-bauers-party-youll-be-sorry-if-you-do/
- Published: 2026-04-15T18:43:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-15T18:43:50.000Z
- Description: If you do know a "Dolores Bauer," odds are this is NOT her.
- Author: Gary P Guthrie
- Tags: Scam Alerts

Dolores Bauer is probably a nice, sweet lady, but cybercrooks have decided to turn her into a scammy witch.

Don't know her, you say? Well, she apparently knows you!

You may have – or will – receive a "special invitation from Dolores Bauer" in your email inbox. It may be tempting ("*Oh, I wonder if that's Dolores from my high school class"*), but **for heaven's sake, don't touch it.** Why? Because there is no "Dolores Bauer" as a "she"; only "Dolores Bauer" as a "they" – the scammer kind of "they."

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d9/1a/d91a71e8-ed81-4ec8-8028-ec14ba129b35/content/images/2026/04/image-13.png)

## Because if you do, things could go bad

What you see below **is not Punchbowl's actual website**. It's a fake landing page designed to look like a legitimate invitation service.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d9/1a/d91a71e8-ed81-4ec8-8028-ec14ba129b35/content/images/2026/04/image-14-1.png)

### Click on it and the danger begins

The "open your invitation" button is where the danger begins — phishing form, malware download, or data harvest – and none of those will make your day bright and cheery.

## More smart scammers more often

This is an interesting time for Seniors and scammers. Scammers are trying new techniques that are very convincing – even for the savviest of people.

There are telltale signs, but these are harder to detect that the garden variety. For instance, this example uses ".de" (a German domain) with a misspelled word ("vitaciony" isn't real English or German).

### Red flags to watch for

- Sent to you as a bcc, not directly to you
- Sent from a name you probably don't know intimately
- Comes from a sender you don't recognize
- Urgency without details ("Please join us!" but no event info)
- URL doesn't match the legitimate service's domain
- Misspelled or foreign domains (.de, .ru, odd letter combos)

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