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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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Post by kylecazar »

rationalist wrote: post #9
kylecazar wrote: post #7

First off, I'm sorry. I went down this road with my godmother, $300k still unrecovered, despite lots of information documented. How did the money actually leave her account once they had access? Was it wired? Unfortunately the solution for you right now is to focus on rebuilding and acceptance. This is a massive problem, you aren't alone, and it's a reminder that there are shitty people in this world. There needs to…

> FBI's IC3 and the FTC. OP is not in the U.S.

Got so wrapped up in the story I forgot the first sentence of it. Thanks, removed that note.

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

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Post by thrownaway561 »

rationalist wrote: post #9
kylecazar wrote: post #7

First off, I'm sorry. I went down this road with my godmother, $300k still unrecovered, despite lots of information documented. How did the money actually leave her account once they had access? Was it wired? Unfortunately the solution for you right now is to focus on rebuilding and acceptance. This is a massive problem, you aren't alone, and it's a reminder that there are shitty people in this world. There needs to…

> FBI's IC3 and the FTC. OP is not in the U.S.

and they wouldn't be able to do anything anyways. That money is moved out of the country and has been laundered 100 fold by now.

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

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Post by vivzkestrel »

thrownaway561 wrote: post #10

I hate to be the one that says it, but there is only one way to handle scammers like this. They need to be hunted down and put down. All of them and anyone who is involved. Truth be told that scamming is becoming easier and easier. The problem is that most countries not only allow it, it is part of their GDP. Look at the number of scammers that originate in India. Everyone there knows who they are, there are numerous…

https://cybercrime.gov.in/ you can report cybercrimes here for india. The problem is the police is short staffed and their tech is also not on part with that of the scammers. The slow judiciary system due to staff shortage again makes this difficult

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

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Post by scapbi »

razakel wrote: post #5
N_Lens wrote: post #2

I think this problem should be solved politically/legally first, technology can easily track money as you know. How are scammers able to operate bank accounts without leaving any traces, and why don’t the police and banks have the power to reverse transactions that are obviously fraudulent.

The problem is corruption, and that's not easy to fix.

I know about corruption; anyone who lives in a third-world country understands it. However, as an engineer who built the technical solution, I feel hopeless. Even though my team has strong technical skills and worked extremely hard, with very little sleep for six months, to create something for the greater good, situations like this still happen. In fact, they are becoming worse and more frequent.

As an engineer, I hope that I can gain more knowledge, connect with more people, and do more to help those who have no one to protect them.

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

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Post by libertarian2 »

It's interesting that in our digital age there are tens of thousands of text editors emerge every millisecond but hackers won't do any project that would help their own people to build robust communities and educational platforms, that would teach everyday (cyber)security and computer/tech skills.
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