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Hi. I'm calling more to see if I can get some help, figuring out how to help my dad.

He is widowed, and he's been scammed a couple of times in the past five years, and it's a decent amount of money that he's lost from what he told me.

He was self-employed in a pretty niche business and was recently pushed into retirement.

The most recent scam...

What do you mean pushed into retirement?

The physical labor of his job was just far too much for him to sustain his age.

He's 65.

Okay.

Did he afford to retire?

So the issue is he hadn't saved up a lot of retirement because growing up up my mom was very sick with a very rare cancer.

And so a lot of the stuff that they were putting aside for their retirement ended up going toward her medical bills.

So a lot of what it seems like he's lost from both of these scams were the only nest eggs he kind of had left.

Oh, it's awful.

What kind of scams were these?

The first, it sounds like it was a romance scam.

That was my fear.

Yeah, the other one was crypto.

And to be really frank and really clear, I understand, like, the crypto and some of the

stuff that he was trying to do. I think he also kind of got sucked into a selling things on

Amazon type scam because he is trying to take care of himself and he doesn't want to be a burden

to my siblings and I.

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