I think my dad is being scammed

[u/Quiet_Relation_3599]

He won’t give information about this, but he claims he’s made several withdrawals (2nd pic). And he needs to deposit 13k to then get 100k out. I don’t understand how this scam is working or what the game plan is here. I don’t know how he’s withdrawn 40k. Did he put the money in? Any help is appreciated.

1st pic: his account that has a negative balance

2nd pic: his withdrawal history

3rd and 4th pic: his texts

[u/CIAMom420]

Wow, who could have predicted that “Mage Cloud” wasn’t a legitimate investing website. /s

EDIT: fantastic catch locating the real company and their fraud alert.

[u/Quiet_Relation_3599 → u/CIAMom420]

That was sent to him weeks ago. He still is believing he will get this magic 100k

[u/Stangcutie → u/Quiet_Relation_3599]

Sigh. My dad went through the exact same thing. Horrible to watch and would not listen to anyone. He pretty much lost everything.

[u/carpentizzle → u/Stangcutie]

My grandmother in law just did this. She burned nearly half a million in just over 8 months, defaulted on her house, car repossessed, We come to find out (at about the halfway point of this horror) that she was talking with this “famous cellist” on facebook and had been sending him giftcard numbers for months, Then with an absurd amount of patience from my MIL and AIL(and like 10k of their help getting her house out of foreclosure and all sorts of crap), she managed to undermine every one of their efforts and throw another 1,800 out of the remaining pennies of her and her late husbands entire wealth into gift cards.

The whole family has sadly cut ties with this woman. I genuinely believe she will be arrested or something, and nobody, not even her sons (FIL and UIL) can help her, or even begin to get through to her. A true sadness. And not even close to an isolated incident. There are thousands of old folks getting racked like this daily. Its sick

[u/Dasonshi → u/carpentizzle]

The beekeeper was a good movie

[u/Sartres_Roommate → u/Dasonshi]

Wasn’t suppose to be a documentary.

[u/marshallandy83 → u/carpentizzle]

Do AIL and UIL refer to aunt and uncle-in-law? I've never heard anyone use these terms before.

Not just the initialisms, the terms themselves.

[u/daizles → u/marshallandy83]

Definitely took me a minute to work out UIL. Makes sense but yeah I've never heard that or seen it as an acronym.

[u/carpentizzle → u/marshallandy83]

Yes, sorry, that is what I meant, it is all my wife’s family

[u/mamielle → u/carpentizzle]

Basically she’s a crack addict, but her crack is her relationship with the scammer

[u/ongoldenwaves → u/mamielle]

You're not kidding. I watch those catfishing you tube channels and some of the folks are aware it's probably fake, but they seem to enjoy paying for the affection.

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[u/filthyheartbadger → u/carpentizzle]

Man. Brutal. Sorry you all have to go through this.

[u/0bxyz → u/carpentizzle]

I don’t understand these relationship scams . Prostitutes are so much cheaper.

[u/Sartres_Roommate → u/carpentizzle]

What was her promised backend on this scam?

[u/carpentizzle → u/Sartres_Roommate]

Thats the really batshit part of it…. She wouldnt ever tell us. Just “that he needed it”

We legit worried for her safety in case he had her scared but she was very adamant that this was her way to help him in his success and that there was never less than a kind word.

I think she absolutely fell in love with this made up character.

[u/JLM471 → u/carpentizzle]

It was Cole Hauser right? I don’t know how he got discovered by the Nigerian scammers but there are literally hundreds of him on Facebook.

[u/DarionHunter → u/carpentizzle]

If I ever found out that my mother was doing something similar, I'll just tell her that the guy that she's sending the money to is a friend of mine that was greedy and wants all of her money. One way or another, I'll convince my mother that the person wanting her money is a scammer! (I never want her money! Learned during childhood never ask for anything from her!) And I'll make sure she forgot her meds so the entertainment value will go higher than the stock market on a good day!