📋 How to Manage Relationships With Chronic Scam Victims (AARP Article)

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📋 How to Manage Relationships With Chronic Scam Victims (AARP Article)

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It Can Be Agony When a Loved One Is a Scam Victim — But Refuses to See It.

Some chronic fraud victims deny that they’ve been targeted by scammers, frustrating the people who care about them.

By Matt Alderton, AARP. Published August 20, 2024.

Journalist April Helm, 49, makes her living reporting facts, but she had trouble getting her late mother, Sherri Tyson, to see the truth. In 2018, the widowed Tyson, who passed away in 2020 at age 72, met a much younger diamond magnate named Gerald online and became convinced that they were in love. She ended up losing $350,000 to the romance scammer, even as Helm tried her hardest to make her mother see that Gerald was a fake.

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2024/victims-in-denial.html

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