My 85 year old dad lost his life savings, his house, everything several years ago from scammers on Facebook. He was very naive about the internet and these pieces of rat filth smoothed him over for about a year, made him feel like they were best friends then started hitting up for money, then had him “invest” in a business.
They had him so utterly convinced, the way we found out is one day out of the blue he announced he was flying to Ghana because he’s involved in a gold business and I knew IMMEDIATELY what it was, that it was a scam, I went bananas, they took him for everything, he even took my moms 401K and gave that away.
And if that wasn’t bad enough I then found out he took out a second mortage gave that away, in total he gave away at least a million bucks, lost his house, they had to move in with me and get this: later on we found out they couldn’t sue billionaire Dork Zuckerturd - the guy who gave us the Biden Presidency - due to the ironically named Section 230 of the Communications decency act, the stupid law Trump wanted to get rid of, the law that protects Zuckerturd while tens of thousands continue to get scammed through Facebook every year and to this day Facebook still allows people to create fake accounts.
Oh, that’s awful.
OMG!
My sister’s father in law knows a woman who was widowed and later met a guy online. She sold her house, sent the $ to him so he could buy a house for the two of them. You know what happened. Out a million $ for sending it to someone she never met in person. She lost everything and had to get a job.