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Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

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Re: Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

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> All my own savings are gone too. (My mother was scammed into borrowing a lot of money and sending it to the scammers, and now it is my responsibility.) Sorry to hear of your misfortune, but I am wondering why you didn't spot the scam before lending money to feed it.

It's more likely his mother borrowed money from other people and he paid her debts.

Re: Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

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yep... I keep telling my dearests, that they should never continue phone conversation if the topic is making them feel threttened (directly or indirectly). Still, even in my close circles I hear stories of people being scammed through silly stories from 'your parcell will not arrive unless you pay >>small amount<< online' to 'your son needs urgent help, send him money online'... I sometimes contemplate whether there is a hook scammers would catch me on..

Re: Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Here in Russia it's nearly always in the news And that is bad because...?

The guy is one of Putin's top generals, also known as "Bloodhound" (in Russian), anyways, he sounds pretty bloodthirsty too, just from the way he writes. You have to pay for your crimes you monster! You and all your people deserve to die! Every Russian. It's just so monstrous how they decide to just invade another country because they can right? What gives them the right? All their people should pay for it, with bloo…

you do realize not ALL Russians side with their govt, right?

Just like not all Ukrainians were slaughtering Polish people in most barbarian ways, icluding newborns and pregnant woman in Wołyń

Re: Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

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I was scammed online about 3-4 month ago by someone pretending to be someone else and I don’t know what to do even the police can’t help me until my cousin direct me to Synacktx on Instagram,he helped me track them and recovered all my money back for me . I was very lucky I found them for help
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