Scam:distributionclaimallowance

I know an 88 year old senile woman who is convinced she is going to get $175,233.99 if she sends the prize patroll $800. They have called her and convinced her the money is on the way. Her daughter got wind of the scam and stopped payment on the check.

The woman is all excited. Waits by the door with the light on. How do you protect an old woman who believes no one will take advantage of her? They promised the money is on it's way. Daughter has changed her phone # and after her SS check arrivess, plans to change checking acccount to protect against identy theft.

Any family should keep a close eye on their elders
as there's a lot of crooks out there trying to swindle them out of their money. I get emails every day about having all this money awaiting me all they need is my account number and they will may a big deposit. Hal

We had an elderly neighbor they preyed upon, they convinced him he was going to win a new car if he bought their products. This was all by phone. They got his life savings from farming. Before his kids could get it stopped. The products he bought was useless junk. Probably would have got the farm had they not intervened.

Why do officials turn a blind eye to scams like this?


If you or I did something like this, we would make the 6 o'clock news and be locked up.

My wife had an Aunt that was in similar shape, fortunately before her husband died he got with a nephew (they had no kids) who was a lawyer and Judge and set their estates up for the nephew to monitor and intervene when she got bad. She did, and he arranged for her to go into assisted living and rather skillfully convinced her that she couldn't get a garage stall at the home so she should sell the car until she could get a stall (never replaced the car). As her dementia/alzheimer's got worse he became more involved with her affairs. By the end he was paying all her Bills and giving her an allowance. He implemented her and her late husband's wishes including making disbursements from the estate to heirs to reduce tax liabilities. The nephew (Peter) acted in an honorable way and took care of the Aunt until she passed and then managed the disbursement of the remaining assets she had including furniture and family heirlooms between the two sides of the family.

I guess the point to be made was Ella, (the Aunt) started moving money around and behaving erratic, Peter intervened to protect her, limited her access to her funds. When she first went into assisted living she had a checking account and a credit card, as those become too much Ella turned control over to Peter. Peter was skillful enough that the last time we saw Ella Alive she commented how Peter was a blessing in taking care of her. The key was Peter steered Ella and when possible let Ella make decisions on her life.

Something has to be done about Scamers. Our country is good at setting up other stings. I try and play their game hoping to find one. MAKE MY DAY.

My dear grandmothers own words 'Why would he lie to me?'

Our High Sheriff has an article in county weekly papers quiet often about the latest scams.

OOPS fat figures misspelled my own name!!

Have you or the daughter reported this scammer to authorities? It is probably illegaly on local, state, and federal levels. The law may be interested in catching the guy in the act.

If a law officer could talk to the older woman that might help convince her it is a scam and that that you are not wrecking "the deal of her lifetime" for her.

Good luck.

Good point George.. I think protecting the elderly should be much higher priority.. I have an older friend, and we all try to watch over him to keep the cons away, both the big scammers, as well as the local "neer-do-wells" that always are trying to get a few dollars from him..

Make out legal looking certified check for the amount and give it to her but post date about 6 months put in a note that she has to wait to cash it. By then she will have forgotten all about it.
Walt

This is just what my sister has been doing for about the past ten years. My old man was always a little goofy but when he started buying polish lite bulbs from some outfit my sister slammed the door.
Remember the government is a bunch of crooks too and they hate it when someone trys to mussle in on THEIR scam!!! Also those old people are gonna croak sone anyway so why bother. Jeffcat

A lot of these scams are being run off shore. That makes it very difficult to catch must less prosecute the miscreants. For those of you who don't know Interpol is not a UN world police force. It is a confederation of law enforcement agencies from around the world that work together. Say an American commits a crime in Spain. Then makes it to the US without getting caught. Once Spanish authorities ID this person they would contact Interpol with enough info for Interpol to issue a warrant. Then before this person can be arrested they have to convince a US judge that what this person has done should be prosecuted. Then the person can be arrested and the extradition process can begin.

Many of these scams are coming out of Nigeria and getting the Nigerian authorities to shut them down has been a problem for the entire international community.

Rick

Yes and the cops don't care.

I may miss my $1,000,000 from Publishers Clearing House because I will hang up on them thinking it is a scam.

(quoted from post at 16:42:54 11/28/13) Yes and the cops don't care.

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George, why should they? They know that if they catch most likely he will wind up with community service and a fine. no jail time because the jails are "overcrowded" and they only send really bad people (drug pushers, murderers and such) to jail. It's the voting populations fault. We don't/are not willing to pay to incarcerate them with our tax dollar.

Rick

If she sent a check for 800 bucks, the scammers aren't going to stop there. Her daughter needs to be sure she doesn't try to send them more money. Usually the scammers want a Western Union wire transfer, because it's essentially untraceable.

It's unlikely their jurisdiction extends to Lagos, Nigeria.