82 year old commits suicide after falling for scam

Scams
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[One of the many side effects of those nasty scammers]

A woman says her 82-year-old grandmother, who lost all of her money to a con artist, was so devastated by the scam, she committed suicide.

The woman spoke to the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday about the scam that hit her family.

This woman was brought to tears as she spoke of her grandmother.

"It pains me to say this but she took her life because of this incident," said Houston resident Angels Stancik, through tears. "These individuals preyed on her and on her good heart."

Her grandmother was named Marjorie Earl Jones. "What should have been some of the best years in the last chapter of her life was taken from her. She was robbed in every sense," Stancik said.

Stancik said her grandmother fell prey to a sweepstakes scam. She was told she won money but needed to pay fees and taxes.

Jones ultimately sent all of her money to scammers and later had to borrow money from family members, took out all of her life insurance and then tragically committed suicide.

She died with $69 in her bank account.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other Justice Department officials listened to Stancik's account. "It happens far too often in this country," Sessions said.

Sessions said more than 200 suspects have been arrested in the past year for elder fraud schemes.

The FTC on Thursday announced a civil complaint in a sweepstakes scheme that allegedly bilked consumers out of more than $100 million and a tech support scam operating out of India.

"It is a despicable crime these people are doing, they laugh about their ability to defraud people," Sessions said.

source : https://abc7.com/society/82-year-old-grandmother-commits-suicide-after-falling-for-scam/3129789/

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What’s sick is Jeff Sessions’ response. Why is it that we as scambaiters do more to educate the public about scammers than top government officials? He acknowledges the prevalence and despicable aspects of the crime, but offers no analysis of the actual scope of the problems or effort to combat it.

Failure of the State and US Attorney Generals to publicly recognize:

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    that phone scams are an entire industry

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    an industry that is active abroad and domestic

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    telecomm carriers profit from the calls

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    consumer data is bought, sold, and exchanged on a secretive market

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    data sources include financial and legit retail entities

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    the BBB and AARP and other good guys are paid to cover up scams

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    mainstream media only reports on scams from a handful of said sources (such as the BBB 12 scams of Christmas)

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    the continuous stream of calls amounts to harassment, a crime that does not require an exchange of money

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    the volume of calls is distracting and disruptive of essential services, such as hospitals

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    motherfuckers, that’s really disgusting.

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    This requires a coordinated cyber strike against the foreign targets. A better option would be to direct targeted drone strikes against selected call centers in places like Lahore, Pakistan. Level the sites and take out the call centers.

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    Pakistan and India are known for corruption. India is well known for scams. They must do something with that corruption problem.

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    Scammers sure are disgusting. They should be putted in jail for life.

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    This is heartbreaking - and makes me so angry. I was actually watching scammer payback video and he was playing a granny who broke down in tears. I knew it wasn’t a granny - but the aggression the loser on the other end of the showed in the face of this - and knowing that there are actually real grannies on the receiving end of this is devastating. :frowning: I would want to destroy anyone who did this to anyone that I love.

    I do accounting for a living - and know very very little about technology above and beyond the tools I use for my job - but things like that make me think I should put some effort into learning it. I can't scambait. There is no way i could refrain from telling these... things... what I think. But I can think VERY creatively.