Plano, Texas — In many ways, Tejasvi Manoj of Plano, Texas, is an average 17-year-old.

"You've got to balance, like, all of your classes, and then you have college applications as well," Manoj told CBS News.

But she's spending much of her senior year of high school with a different type of senior, visiting older adult community centers, where she teaches them how to avoid being financially scammed .

Her calling started last year when Manoj's grandfather was the target of a scam effort in which he received a text message from someone pretending to be a family member, claiming an emergency and asking him to wire $2,000 to a bank account.

Fortunately, Manoj's grandfather and grandmother contacted family members and discovered the scam before wiring the money.

But the event was alarm

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