Old people and scams

[theel4life]

My 76 years old mother continues to throw away her money on online scams. Me and my daughters have told her over and over again these are scams and they are stealing your money. Yet she continues to fall for them. I don’t know what to do anymore.

 

[shonuff]

Are they calling her land line or cell phone? You can set her phone to only allow calls from known numbers. How did she get scammed?

 

[theel4life]

Are they calling her land line or cell phone? You can set her phone to only allow calls from known numbers. How did she get scammed?

Online scams. She sends people gift cards.

 

[theel4life]

Online scams. She sends people gift cards.

At one point she thought she was in a relationship with Tyler Perry.

 

[Delta74]

Online scams. She sends people gift cards.

Are these via Facebook and is it through her smartphone or a computer?

 

[theel4life]

Are these via Facebook and is it through her smartphone or a computer?

Smartphone

 

[Carolina Fever]

At one point she thought she was in a relationship with Tyler Perry.

 

[theel4life]

She literally will buy $500 gift cards and send them to people she doesn’t even know.

 

[Delta74]

Smartphone

And is it Facebook? And is it her phone or did you buy the phone and she uses it?

I’m asking these questions because I went through this w my Mother in just the last couple of years and she was 75 when it started in earnest.

 

[MOUNTAINH33L]

Some scammer had poor Gail thinking she was in an online relationship with Post Malone.

 

[theel4life]

And is it Facebook? And is it her phone or did you buy the phone and she uses it?

I’m asking these questions because I went through this w my Mother in just the last couple of years and she was 75 when it started in earnest.

She paid for her phone and pays the bill. I have told her husband and he does nothing about it.

 

[4thgenheel]

it sounds like maybe she isn't with it enough at this point to have a smart phone?

the internet is a dangerous place.

maybe get her one of those jitterbug phones that can only call people programmed in / 911.

 

[theel4life]

Some scammer had poor Gail thinking she was in an online relationship with Post Malone.

That could be my mother.

 

[hedge]

I thought you already started a thread on this topic. I remember last time (as this time) you posted "She literally will buy $500 gift cards and send them to people she doesn’t even know," and I replied "What's her phone number"...

 

[theel4life]

it sounds like maybe she isn't with it enough at this point to have a smart phone?

the internet is a dangerous place.

maybe get her one of those jitterbug phones that can only call people programmed in / 911.

I have no control over that.

 

[Delta74]

I have no control over that.

Sorry to say but there is nothing you can do. Sounds like my mother. W her it was the beginnings of Dementia which is full blown now and she’s now 78.

I was finally able to get control of her phone which eventually took care of the problem. Without that you have no chance. We had interventions w friends, family, and the Police and nothing worked. She was convinced that the Facebook “celebrities” were really who she thought they were.

 

[4thgenheel]

I have no control over that.

you're in a tough spot.

outside of making it so that these people cannot communicate with her, not sure how you can make it stop since she is clearly not listening to you / your daughters.

 

[OGtruthhurts]

Whats her number?

 

[dukeman92]

At one point she thought she was in a relationship with Tyler Perry.

French woman duped by AI Brad Pitt faces mockery online

Anne, 53, was subject to nationwide ridicule after a TV show revealed how she paid out huge sums to romance scammers pretending to be Brad Pitt.

www.bbc.com

 

[Baba O’Riley]

Can you get her money in a financial company that has a fiduciary responsibility to not let her take the funds if fraud is expected?