Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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Well have someone pretend to be the FBI and contact her and tell them they are fake.
Give them her information so the believes them!
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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Her family has taken away her iPad, internet and changed her #. She’s a very savvy woman in her 70’s and she figured out how to get internet. I’ve even shown her reserve image search of the pictures...
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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Follow steps 1-3. Was in very similar situation. The main objective should be to convince person they are scammed...........sometimes it feels self defeating....keep trying!
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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Glad you or your friend got out. There is no shame in it. It's too easy to watch or hear about programs like 90 Day Fiance and think that finding romance online is a great thing. It's really not....
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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Highly recommend sitting down with her at the computer and review these websites.
https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2021/international-tech-support-scam-exposed.html
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Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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Then you have to watch out for the "recovery" scammers. They also might be the same people, but they will promise to "recover"all the lost money by just spending a little money, then a little more,...
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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old people make my ass twitch
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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Deductive reasoning just goes right out the window with many victims. The answer is to just get them to make more real life social connections. Senior centers, church groups, meet ups for people...
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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Her family should be the ones to intervene. If she's making poor financial decisions maybe they should have her placed under guardianship.
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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The family could try to talk to her bank. They have some interest in customers not losing all their money or attempting to recover it with a lawsuit.
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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I'm shocked, simply shocked that scumbags stoop so low to scam senior citizens! It's bad enough that old people had to suffer growing up before Benjamin Franklin invented electricity! As chief...
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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I'm compassionate. :peace:
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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I work in cyber security and I sent my SC every article I could on 419 scams. Still wasn't convinced. The scammer convinced my SC that I was "hacking all their devices" and we were "out to get...
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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Been through a similar situation. No matter how many times we proved that the person on the other end was a scammer, we couldn't convince my family member that the person was a scammer. Authorities...
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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I have a friend who’s a senior citizen and she’s been scammed over and over and over. I think by the same person. Now this person has told her that he’s going to have his close friend who’s with the...
Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
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So this is a sweetheart scam. The bank should be notified. You can't just tell someone that the other person isn't real. If she's desperate enough, she'll believe them over you.
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Help Me Help my Friend who’s being scammed online
Thread created 01-29-2024 by GreenFlower237
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I'll add that while we see no shame in it, the people scammed usually do feel extraordinarily shamed, which often makes them dig their heels in as form of denial/self protection. So be compassionate...
