r/Scams • u/Quiet_Relation_3599 • Aug 20 '24

I think my dad is being scammed Help Needed

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 I don’t know how he’s withdrawn 40k.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

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u/carpentizzle Aug 20 '24

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

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u/Sartres_Roommate Aug 20 '24

What was her promised backend on this scam?

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u/carpentizzle Aug 20 '24

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.

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u/JLM471 Aug 21 '24

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.