Is there any group out there that provides any intervention type of services?
My wife's aunt/uncle are deep into a Nigerian scam. One big difference, and it's no real difference at all, is that they went looking for an investment and had this presented to them. It didn't land in their email box, they don't have one. And it didn't come via mail or a phone call. The proverbial fly landed right in the web.
They have invested their life savings, amounts of money from their easiy manipulated children that they cannot afford to lose, other family members and at least large sums of money from 3 widows that they know.
You would have to know this family to understand the level of pride and blide obediance you're dealing with here that's keeping them from believing this is a scam. It's been going on since at least last August.
I have warned them over and over. I have provided them with articles and data that says that there is no way in the world that this is real but they don't want to believe. They think this investment was "God's will" and God certainly wouldn't lead them into anything bad. Well, if you want to bring God into it I think he would be in the process of forming a lesson on greed, pride, arrogance.... and when it comes to the part of the family that's sitting idle by while the others self destruct, well, I'm not sure about that but I want to smack a few right in the head.
I wish I had the resources, and support from my wife's side of the family, to fly to Ft. Worth and shake these fools until they either see their being scammed or are too dizzy to cut another check but that is not the case.
Please post or PM me with any advice you may have.
And if you know:
The Walker family of Arlington, TX please Don't give them any more money.
_________________ Regards, jb
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