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October 26, 2024

😭 Suicide After a Scam: One Family’s Story (AARP Article)

  • October 26, 2024
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A crypto scam takes everything from a grandfather. His family shares his story.
 
By AARP. Published October 25, 2024.
 
Dennis an 82-year-old proud father and grandfather, makes a connection with a woman he meets on Facebook named Jessie. Jessie claims to have made a lot of money through crypto investments and offers to teach Dennis how she did it. Having developed a trusting relationship with Jessie and hoping to build an inheritance for his family, Dennis decides to invest his savings. When it is revealed that the investments are a scam and Jessie is a fraud, a devastated Dennis takes his own life. Now his son and daughter share his story in hopes of reaching just one person who might be going through a similar situation.
 

https://www.aarp.org/podcasts/the-perfect-scam/info-2024/suicide-after-scam.html

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    LashonH169554
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    October 27, 2024

    Hello, a co workers father had this happen but he had a heart attack. The scammed pretended to be an old classmate from high school. At first he was making a profit until he wasnt. The family didn't know he wiped out all his savings until it was to late. He left is wife with nothing. I had no idea this was getting to be so common. Sorry for your loss. 

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