Any other children of con people watching “Con Mom”?

[Anonymous]

I would love to discuss this film with someone else with a similar parent.

My dad had a moderately successful career as an engineer, but he was also a life long petty con man. His victims included his children. I was in my twenties before I noticed anything amiss, my thirties before he couldn’t explain things away anymore, and my forties before I told anyone.

[Anonymous]

So sorry you went through that. Very curious how did he con his children?

My uncle is like that. It’s really breathtaking how people can come from a normal background and end up that way. I know it’s not the same but I got to really experience it firsthand because I was executor of my grandparents estate (my dad died young-ish and my grandmother died in her late 90s). His son/my cousin stopped talking to him decades ago at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So sorry you went through that. Very curious how did he con his children?

My uncle is like that. It’s really breathtaking how people can come from a normal background and end up that way. I know it’s not the same but I got to really experience it firsthand because I was executor of my grandparents estate (my dad died young-ish and my grandmother died in her late 90s). His son/my cousin stopped talking to him decades ago at this point.

Thanks.

He secretly opened credit accounts in family members’ names to fund living beyond his means. He made himself rep payee for my two disabled brothers’ gov’t benefits and skimmed. For the rest of us, he offered to co-sign for car loans so we could get better rates, then secretly used the vehicle we were paying for as collateral to secure other credit for himself.

These are just a few examples. We didn’t fly to Switzerland or anything, but it still negatively impacted us once his house of cards collapsed.