When the scammers came for Mum
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The Times
4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
During lockdown those living alone have faced greater risk, not only to their health but also their finances. According to the Dementia Society the condition has worsened for many during the pandemic, and the isolation of lockdown has also exposed many to telephone scams.
Guests:
David Byers, Times Money Deputy Editor.
Paula Saunderson, cares for her mother.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
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| 0:47.4 | Together, we are the world's emergency responders. For most people a lockdown is a restriction but for the most unscrupulous it's an opportunity, an opportunity to steal from the elderly. |
| 1:06.0 | She was led to believe that 50,000 pounds was in her mother's savings account and she looked through her accounts and found it had all simply disappeared. |
| 1:15.7 | She asked her mother where the money was and her mother didn't have a clue. |
| 1:19.1 | During the six months since the nation retreated from normal life, scams aimed at the old and isolated have been on the rise. |
| 1:30.0 | It was just constant, constant calls, and then gradually with lockdown we started to get things like |
| 1:38.7 | emails relating to the TV license. |
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| 1:48.0 | Today, when the Scammers came for Mum. |
| 2:02.0 | It happens to us all. |
| 2:03.2 | The other day someone called my phone. |
| 2:05.2 | The issue at hand is extremely time sensitive. |
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