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So I'm calling because my husband and I'll give you kind of some details.

Happily married for 10 years, we've been together for 18.

And his mom has been having some health issues the last couple of years.

And a couple of years ago, we downsized her to a smaller home, everything all on one level.

And things have been going great until last year.

We got a phone call from the bank when we were on vacation that they were concerned about

the amount of money exiting her account when we get back home we found out that over the course

of about nine months she had given away over $150,000 in scams. And there's no recourse.

The money is gone.

It's not fraudulent.

It was all on her own doing.

Yikes.

And so thankfully, the home that we downsized her to is in our name.

And thank goodness, because we are pretty confident that the person scamming her would have

consensured her to get a second mortgage on the property.

Yeah.

So we've had a lot of conversations over the last year and a half about the amount of times

that she has fallen and gotten hurt.

And the reason that I think she even fell victim to these scams is that she's very lonely.

She has been living on her own for over 30 years.

Okay.

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