a scam coming to a Dollar Tree near you?

Anyone that scams the elderly are lower than low. Where do these people come from?

Then again I had a 74 year old woman scam me out of a $1500 downpayment, selling me property she didn't own. She's on SSI and doesn't own anything. So suing would be a waste of time. Who would of thought?

 

Where do they come from? Often their own loins... elderly abuse (including financial) by children and grandchildren is far more wide-spread than most people realize.

As for the woman in the story, although she says she was afraid, and I don't doubt there was some element of that, I suspect it was greed, or desperation that influenced her lack of thought.

Get money to pay the taxes on a bag of money? Really? That's a new take on the Nigerian 419 scam.

And $4,000 in "life savings"? Scary, but also extremely common.