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Let's go straight to the phone lines where we've got Brenda in Dallas, Texas.

What's going on, Brenda?

Hi.

Yes, my dad, he's in his 80s, and I have determined that he's been scammed out of thousands of dollars by a fake publishing

company.

Shoot.

And so I recently persuaded him that it's a scam, but I still feel like he's very vulnerable

because they'll just keep calling and keep calling with a new scam and all of those things.

A year ago, he got a call out of the blue to republish one of his books, and so they asked for money up front, and since then,

they've just, they've even withdrawn without permission from his account once they got his

account number. Oh, wow.

So how much money are we talking?

Right now, it's almost 20,000.

Oh, wow.

Brenda, do you guys have contact information for these people?

I mean, like, this is, they're stealing money.

This is illegal.

Have you contacted the police?

No, I haven't really known what road to go

down legally. What I have been doing is, uh, like, uh, we canceled his cards and got new cards.

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