My mother-in-law ALWAYS falls for scams… this time it’s breaking the family! | Reddit Stories | EP2109
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🗓️ 24 May 2025
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00:00 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - My mother in law has already given 50k to a romance scam, tried to give another 178k recently. Can an intervention help?
36:36 r/relationships - My [24F] mother [54F] thinks that my brother's [30M] coming child may not be his. Should I tell him she feels this?
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| 0:16.1 | My mother-in-law always falls for scams. |
| 0:19.2 | This time, it's breaking my family. Don't answer the phone, Grandma. Mother-in-law always falls for scams. This time, it's breaking my family. |
| 0:21.5 | Don't answer the phone, Grandma. |
| 0:23.5 | Mother-in-law lives in Laos, a developing country in Asia. |
| 0:27.2 | I was born there too, but left when I was 10 months old. |
| 0:30.7 | Mother-in-law had fallen victim to romance scams in the past, but only losing maybe |
| 0:35.9 | $2,000 to $ five thousand dollars. Only. |
| 0:39.5 | A lot. That's a lot. Oh, man. The romance scams really get you. Yeah, that's tough. |
| 0:44.4 | Yeah. We knew she had in the past six months fallen for another romance scam, but I didn't think |
| 0:49.9 | it was serious. By the way, this comes from Fuggles McGee. And if you want to submit your own |
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| 1:00.2 | renovated her mother's house, new backyard, new additions to the house, even left her still |
| 1:05.5 | relatively new car for her mother. My wife also sends her about $700 a month for expenses, the same amount she |
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