[trisham]

I’m not surprised.

[thoughtomator]

There was this one affirmative action hire on staff at Lockheed when I worked there... her daily routine was to disrupt the rest of the department with loud personal phone calls while doing no work.

Showed up one day in a late-model Mercedes. Turns out that she scammed her own parents out of their home and spent the money on luxury consumption.

[Liz]

There’s the true crime tale........

His rich aunt lent the guy big bucks.....he lost it all gambling.

When it came time to pay up——he killed her ...... just b/c he didnt have the money.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I got a call from my grandson not long ago saying he had been in a wreck and needed bail money to get out of jail. I listened for a while and played along, before I broke it off in him.

I have no grandsons.

[Richard Kimball]

A few years ago a guy came into my college class. He did everything he could to get kicked out, and I finally did it. About a month later, his grandfather dropped by to see how he was doing. Tough moment, cause with FERPA, I couldn't share anything except that he wasn't with the program. Grandpa had paid for all of it. He asked if there was a refund, so I checked, and the kid had run straight over on the day I kicked him out and picked up the refund. Grandpa looked crushed.

[cgbg]

I had an old-time vendor get scammed when he gave his power of attorney to a business partner.

That is one of the ways that family members or “friends” can easily scam the elderly.

[goodnesswins]

Yup...I can attest to this...SIL scammed MIL for years...

[Vaduz]

Where there is a will there is a relative willing to fight over it.

[grayboots]

My elderly father was recently scammed out of 40K. These evil people who pray on the elderly have a special place in hell.

[DoodleDawg]

I don’t find that hard to believe at all.

[Larry Lucido]

Older Adults Scammed More Often By Relatives Than Strangers, Study Finds

Of course. "Hey, Uncle Ernie, I just joined Amway. How about buying $500.00 worth of crap and becoming a direct distributor? You'll be rich!"

[Larry Lucido]

Or when Jerry scammed Nana. Or just who scammed who?

[TexasFreeper2009]

Easy to believe this, also crime in general is committed by people you know and rarely by a stranger.

[Monitor]

My sister volunteered to “help” my mother pay her bills.

She siphoned off about $30K in fraudulent checks, another $10k in fraudulent bank transfers to pay off her own credit cards, and another $6k in fraudulent debit card charges.

When confronted by an attorney, she refused to return the money. When confronted by the police and then the district attorney, she called my mom begging her not to send her to prison. Mom had the charges dropped.

[MarvinStinson]

VERY true.

I kniow of numerous examples.

[1956tbyrd]

Beware of relatives asking for money.

[Pearls Before Swine]

You take your opportunities where you find them. /S

[cyclotic]

I know a guy who was poised to sell his business to his son in law.

A week before they were to sign the papers, SIL told him that he was quitting and taking all the customers with him. The customers constituted most of the business value.

Stupid SIL is going to be real surprised to find that he and his wife are specifically not in the will.

[Honest Nigerian]

Data proves more Americans scammed by Federal, state and local government than all other scammers combined.
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[Gay State Conservative]

I'm a big fan of "The Crime Channel".I remember hearing a detective involved in a murder case say that when investigating the murder of a woman "before you look at the outlaws you look at the in-laws".Meaning,of course,that it's often a friend/relative rather than a stranger.

Sounds like the same thing applies for victims of con artists.