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[quote=Anonymous]Ugh. So sibling and I just got a call from the police in my mother's town (different part of the country from both of us) because she tried to buy a large dollar amount of gift cards at a big box store (fortunately the store has a policy to alert police when an elderly person tries to do this, and fortunately the police somehow found contact information for me and my sibling).

My mother is in her 80s and lives alone - she's healthy and seems to have no obvious cognitive decline thus far. We talked with her and she confirmed that she has been using gift cards to fund a "really good investment" which is clearly a scam. We tried to explain this, pointed her to numerous online resources, and encouraged her to test whether this "investment" was legit by trying to withdraw about half of what she supposedly has in her account, but she does not believe us and thinks this is all legit. We do not know (she will not tell us) how much she has sent to these people so far.

Both sibling and I have a financial POA for her, but we want to be discreet as she is at least telling us some information now (very defensively) and we worry that if we start pushing she will start to hide what she's doing financially.

I honestly have no idea where to start with this. Any advice welcome. [/quote]

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