My mom got scammed

Hi, I was referred to this site by the wonderful people at 419eater.

I just want to let people know that my mother has fallen victim to the nigerian scams REPEATEDLY.
She is 67 and lives alone and I don't know how to help her.

She has been doing this for a very long time, and by the time I found out about it her house was already in forclosure proceedings. I'm not sure how many hundreds of thousands of dollars she has sent.

I thought she had learned a lesson when she had to quickly sell her house for far less than it was worth to keep from forclosure, but I found out today that she borrowed $5000 against her car to send them AGAIN.
I yelled at her for awhile and tried to calm down and get some answers, which she wouldn't go into great detail. It has been a couple of years since she sold her house, so I don't know how long she has been doing it this time. I asked her how much money she has sent this time and she just started crying and said that she doesn't know.

I called an attorney and explained the situation, and he said that if she doesn't agree to sign over power of attorney there is little that I can do. I can take her to court and try to have her declared incompetent, but he said that it is very costly, and is very hard to have someone declared incompetent.

I don't know anything about the scammers yet, but I'm going to her house in the morning and I'm going to find out as much as I can. I'll post what I find out.

I don't know what to do with her.


Thanks for listening,
Sally

[AlanJones]

Hi Sally and welcome to ScamWarners.

I'm sorry to hear about your mother's situation, it must be very upsetting for you.

As a starting point you should consider closing your mother's email account and setting up a new one also find out whether she has been in phone contact with the scammers. If she has then also consider changing her phone number.

If you can get details of the scams post them here and we can give you more help/advice.

One thing you should be aware of is recovery scams where she will be contacted by a scammer pretending to be from an organisation that can get her money back. They will just charge her more fees.

Welcome here scrappingsally. I have read your story on eater. It took a lot of courage to stand up to your mom and litteraly drag her away from these scammers. You did the right thing, especially by taking her into your house where you can monitor her. Your mom needs someone like you to get through the difficult times. And you could allso need someone too to talk to and that's where we are here for. If you need help or just need someone to talk too then PM one of the support members.
Good luck

Thanks for the support. I need it right now!

Here is some info that I have so far.

Hon Sanusi Lamido - [email protected]

chief ANTHONY ELUMELU - [email protected]

MR.WILLIAMS RHODES from "citi bank" - [email protected]

Agent Donald Self from "FBI" - [email protected] (didn't know the FBI started using rocketmail)

Kenneth D Lewis, Chairman, CEO and President of "Bank of America" - [email protected]

Glen Amzy - [email protected]
Glen Amzy
55 Stadium road
City.....Ibadan
State...0yo
Nigeria

Charrie L Watkins
1076 grace road, Cheyenne
Wyoming 82009
[email protected]

Oladeji Olakunle
44 major street
Ibadan, Oyo state
Nigeria

Drake Nollan
Bank of America,435 avey road,
New Grade, Michigan,57122
[email protected]

Oba Anthony.
Address:Lagos-Nigeria.

"Office Of The Presidency" - [email protected]

That's what I have so far.
More to come as soon as I find them.

Sally

Hi Sally,

I am so glad you have made it over here, I also saw the thread at Eater and I even gave you advice there.

We prefer that Victims (friends/family of victims) are helped over here as you will have all of the experienced warners in the same place and avoid some of the less experienced advice.

I am glad you have allowed (dragged) your mother to live with you, that should be a huge help in keeping her safe.

I will go and find that thread at eater again to catch up on the latest, meanwhile, if you have any questions or if you would like us to contact your mum, dont hesitate to ask.

Hi again Ralph,
Thanks so much for your concern and help, it means a lot right now.

Actually, she isn't living with me...yet. She lives about 10 minutes away from me, and I'm going to be checking in on her a lot now.
The last time she got caught up in this mess she lived with me for about 6 months. It will probably end up the same this time though. If that's what it takes to get her out of all this mess, then so be it.
Right now, I'm just trying to get her finances back on track and keep her from communicating with them.
I did get her phone number changed and turned off her internt and brought her computer to my house.
For now that's it. If I have to go further later, I will.

Thanks again for everything.

Sally

Never a problem,

If you need us to provide proof for each of the various scams you can post them and ask us to prove them as scams, posting the emails is a good way to slow down the scammers either way so when you can please post them and if you need us to show some proof we can do that.

I dont mean to put you on another downer but I think your mum may always be prone to being scammed in an attempt to regain the money she has lost, she needs to understand that any money she has/will send will be lost forever.

There are many informational threads here to read through so take a look around, the more you understand the various scams the better equipped you will be to explain them.

I am also glad u came here from 419 eaters ,I also seen ur post there too & like i said before ,I want part of this Justice .TY TnG