80-Year-Old Mom Is A Serial Cheater And Has Given Away $1M To An Internet Scammers

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

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0:06.0	I have two in-laws who I love dearly. They are both in their mid to early 80s.
0:14.0	My father-in-law about a year and a half ago was diagnosed with cancer and a
0:20.0	multiple multitude of other things.
0:22.5	He's in very ill health.
0:24.4	My mother-in-law is in fantastic health.
0:27.3	And the situation is this.
0:28.9	They have been married for 60 years.
0:31.2	They both had very well-paying jobs, built up a really nice nest egg, probably to the tune of several, how I want to say,
0:39.4	maybe $3.5 million.
0:41.2	Okay.
0:42.3	And my mother-in-law has never been responsible with money.
0:45.8	My father-in-law has always been the one to handle the bills.
0:48.0	They are debt-free doing well financially.
0:53.5	And when my father-in-law went to the hospital about a year ago,
0:58.0	he decided to go ahead and give my mother-in-law access to her retirement account,
1:02.7	thinking that he didn't have much longer. She drained it, giving it to an online scammer.
1:09.8	Wait, three to four million?
1:12.4	Well, no, no.
1:13.5	There's several accounts.
1:14.8	The one that he gave her access to was three-quarters of a million.
1:18.3	Okay.
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