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The call is free, and some say the advice is worth exactly what you pay for it. Allison starts us off today in Washington, D.C. Hey, Allison, how are you?
Hi, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate all the education that you guys provide. Um, my question today is about how to help my mother recover from a romance scam. Um, she recently found out that there's about $1.2 million missing from hers and my grandmother's, um, estate. Um, and it's gone. Uh,
And I know I'm not responsible for my mother's spending, but there's just very few resources out there to help someone as they recover from this kind of scam.
Wow. So he has disappeared.
Yeah, I don't even think she met him in person. So this got flagged from her bank after she transferred $300,000, and they flagged that. But that was only the biggest transfer. There were a lot of other smaller transactions totaling that I'm aware of, about $1.2 million. How old is your mom?
She is 71. Oh. What a horrible thing. I'm so sorry. Simultaneously makes me angry and sad. Wow. Okay, so I guess there's a couple of areas. Is your mom just lonely or is she diminished mentally?
That's a great question. Definitely the first one. We thought that she might be diminishing mentally. I still hold that opinion. There are other family members that think she's just the way she's always been. Is there anything left? She told me there's about $5,000 of my grandmother's money left. My grandmother does have income, and that's going to cover her nursing home expenses.
She's actually in hospice now, and I do feel like my grandmother's going to be okay. We've been working with the nursing home to make sure that they're going to continue her care, and it's not going to be too much longer.
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