I know this stuff happens to single people who pick the wrong person to handle their finances while they are away.
During the first Gulf War, had a SPC in my section who had left his mother with his bank account. He came from a poor family and when his mother saw his bank account, about $1000, she bought some nice Christmas presents for his siblings. The SPC was mad she spent the money> He knew she didn’t spend it for herself and his mother wasn’t greedy.
I guess many of us remember the bar maids and waitresses that had their sob stories of trying to raise funds to “get back home”, or “ have their child move back in with them”, etc., etc.
Those are excellent scams for basic training and AIT bases, because of the constant rotation of boys flush with their first pay checks and trusting attitudes, and their new manhood.