by Sakmeht
Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:07 pm
Hi everyone,
My father is being scammed and has been for the last few years. Up until now I believe it's been for low amounts of money, but my mother just emailed the family looking for help and advice. I'm hoping you all can suggest something for her. I'm planning to give her the link to this thread so that she can register and participate. I know that my Dad doesn't believe her that these are scams. Are there any suggestions for ways to "wake up" someone? She mentioned the attorney general, but I guess that didn't work. Thanks for any suggestions! Here is her email to me:
Your father is driving me nuts with scams.
This has been going on for over three years now.
The latest one, he went ahead and bought a $900. bond from a total stranger on the phone. This bond was to insure acceptance of $450,000, just in case the money got lost or mislaid.
I didn't know about the $900 until just now.
Supposedly, the check for the big money is at the airport, and he needs to pay $1,200. to have it delivered.
I am seriously considering taking financial control away from your Dad, and want all of you to know about it up front.
I am sick of hearing that we can't afford certain things, picking up more jobs to earn more money and having him throw it away.
Despite what the attorney general has to say, your Dad is buying into all this crap. He gets three or four calls a day, telling him that he has won big money, but he can't accept that his name and number have been sold to every scammer out there. He truly feels that someone is going to win that money, and doesn't accept that if it is a scam, there is no money to be won.
Do any of you have any ideas on how to deal with this so I don't have to take financial control away? That in itself will be a lengthy and costly process, plus it will be insulting to him.
I'm trying to convince him that he needs to find something worthwhile to do with his time than read the fine print on every piece of mail that arrives. Any ideas there?
Love, Mom
She also mentioned in a later email that he's getting sneaky and taking the car in order to mail stuff at the post office. (She usually checks the mailbox after he puts letters out there to take out the ones that have checks in them. At least, she was doing that at one point.
Thanks again!
My father is being scammed and has been for the last few years. Up until now I believe it's been for low amounts of money, but my mother just emailed the family looking for help and advice. I'm hoping you all can suggest something for her. I'm planning to give her the link to this thread so that she can register and participate. I know that my Dad doesn't believe her that these are scams. Are there any suggestions for ways to "wake up" someone? She mentioned the attorney general, but I guess that didn't work. Thanks for any suggestions! Here is her email to me:
Your father is driving me nuts with scams.
This has been going on for over three years now.
The latest one, he went ahead and bought a $900. bond from a total stranger on the phone. This bond was to insure acceptance of $450,000, just in case the money got lost or mislaid.
I didn't know about the $900 until just now.
Supposedly, the check for the big money is at the airport, and he needs to pay $1,200. to have it delivered.
I am seriously considering taking financial control away from your Dad, and want all of you to know about it up front.
I am sick of hearing that we can't afford certain things, picking up more jobs to earn more money and having him throw it away.
Despite what the attorney general has to say, your Dad is buying into all this crap. He gets three or four calls a day, telling him that he has won big money, but he can't accept that his name and number have been sold to every scammer out there. He truly feels that someone is going to win that money, and doesn't accept that if it is a scam, there is no money to be won.
Do any of you have any ideas on how to deal with this so I don't have to take financial control away? That in itself will be a lengthy and costly process, plus it will be insulting to him.
I'm trying to convince him that he needs to find something worthwhile to do with his time than read the fine print on every piece of mail that arrives. Any ideas there?
Love, Mom
She also mentioned in a later email that he's getting sneaky and taking the car in order to mail stuff at the post office. (She usually checks the mailbox after he puts letters out there to take out the ones that have checks in them. At least, she was doing that at one point.
Thanks again!
