Gift card scam - what can/should I do?

[Anonymous]

Where is the original paperwork, OP? Why don't you have it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(I absolutely recognize that I have to act, btw! I am in a bit of a panic over this - I know she will think we are overreacting and trying to control her and she will become completely secretive and uncooperative, so I need to plan this out before I act.)

unfortunately you may need to pursue guardianship if she cannot accept that she is being criminally preyed upon.

steps short of guardianship: you could put cameras in her house to capture audio to hear what she's talking to people about, put an airtag in her car, turn on location sharing on her phone, and monitor her email and get the logins to all of her online accounts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she has an iPhone, change the settings to have her share her location with her or sign up for life 360. My friend did this for her widowed, elderly father and it was from tracking him that she discovered he had fallen for one of those IRS scams because he was repeatedly going to Fedex over several days. He lost $750,000 but it could have been much more if she hadn't discovered it in time to shut it down.

Now it could be gift cards but next it could be worse.

The amounts of money people are giving up to these scammers is MIND BOGGLING.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she has an iPhone, change the settings to have her share her location with her or sign up for life 360. My friend did this for her widowed, elderly father and it was from tracking him that she discovered he had fallen for one of those IRS scams because he was repeatedly going to Fedex over several days. He lost $750,000 but it could have been much more if she hadn't discovered it in time to shut it down.

Now it could be gift cards but next it could be worse.

What IRS scams?