Drained Retirement, Maxed Credit Cards. How Scam Victims Start Rebuilding
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To participate, just visit nerdwallet.com/slash podsurvey or check out the link in the show notes and submit the form by September 30th for a chance to win. Official rules are at nerdwallet.com/slash podsurvey. Good luck. You work hard over decades to build your retirement nest egg, but what happens if you meet someone online, fall in love, and end up giving them hundreds of thousands of dollars while jeopardizing your own comfortable retirement? Now imagine that happens. to a parent. What, if anything, can you do? Welcome to Nerdwallet's Smart Money Podcast, where you send us your money questions and we answer them with the help of our genius nerds. I'm Sean Piles.
And I'm his fabulous, fantastic, awesome co host, Elizabeth Ayola. Did you like my self introduction there?
Yes, because every single word of it was accurate. You are so fabulous, Elizabeth. Thank you.
Thank you. Oh my god. Well, okay, now that I'm getting over myself, we have a money question for you guys today. And here is the question. My dad is in his 70s, and we found out that he lost basically all of his money to an online girlfriend he connected with on OnlyFans who lives overseas. Regardless of whether she is real or the whole thing is a scam, he is now starting over financially with fully depleted retirement savings and Massive credit card debt. Are there financial planners that specialize in this type of scenario resources for seniors that have lost all their money? He is still able to work and owns two homes with mortgages, but digging himself out of the enormous financial hole he has gotten himself into will not be easy.
Thank you. Signed, devastated, but trying to help.
Man, I so feel for this listener because it's really heartbreaking what their father is going through. And as we'll get into in a little bit, I've experienced something similar. So when I saw this email come through to the podcast inbox, I knew we had to tackle it because there's so much going on and it's so difficult to help your parents when you're kind of in this role reversal of, you know, kind of parenting them. But man, it's just it's a tough one.
It is. And I have a little story of my own. I have been scammed several times in my life and it is a terrible feeling.
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