My Mom Was a Victim Of A Romance Scam

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:04.3	Start budgeting for free today.
0:06.7	My question today is about how to help my mother recover from a romance scam.
0:14.7	She recently found out that there's about $1.2 million missing from hers and my grandmother's estate.
0:26.0	And it's gone.
0:28.5	And I know I'm not responsible for my mother's spending, but there's just very few resources
0:33.2	out there to help someone as they recover from this kind of scam.
0:40.0	Wow.
0:41.9	So he has disappeared?
0:46.1	Yeah, I don't even think she met him in person.
0:50.3	So this got flagged from her bank after she transferred $300,000 and they flagged that.
0:58.8	But that was only the biggest transfer.
1:01.0	There were a lot of other smaller transactions totaling that I'm aware of about $1.2 million.
1:07.5	How old is your mom?
1:10.1	She is 71.
1:13.2	What a horrible thing.
1:14.5	I'm so sorry.
1:16.3	Simultaneously makes me angry and sad.
1:20.3	Wow.
1:21.9	Okay, so I guess there's a couple of areas.
1:25.9	Is your mom just lonely or is she diminished mentally?
1:33.3	That's a great question.
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