Re: Eldery mother being targeted by overseas lottery scams

On 28 Nov, 19:06, JakeD <Ja...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since the death of my father, ten years ago, my mother was living
alone for a few years. During this time, she becamn increasingly
targeted by overseas lottery/sweepstakes scammers. I thought I had
convinced her she was being scammed about a year ago but lately
discovered she's been replying to some of the mailings, thus no doubt
showing herself to be a sucker, and inviting even more of these
mailings.

I recently moved in with her and became aware of the extent of her
involvement. She spends hours pouring over the hundreds of scam-mails
she receives from Canada, the Netherlands' the USA and many other
countries.

I've printed out numerous web pages exposing this very common type of
scamming (now big business) but she's difficult to convince. I dread
to think how much money she has been cheated out of.

I asked her to show me one of the scam mails today. I wrote down the
company name and did an interned search. Sure enough, they are known
scammers. I'm sure they all are.

Obviously, these companies are difficult to nail - particularly since
they are overseas.

What's my best plan of action to stop these mailings coming into our
house? If I can catch the postman before she does, I can simply hide
them from her, but that's not always possible.

Thanks for any advice.

JD

In an earlier day crooks like this would get jailed for a long time
but nowadays the police are too busy wasting their time to do what
used to be called police work.


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