Not sure if this is the appropriate place to post or not, but hoping someone here can offer some advice.
My elderly grandmother has been ill, in the hospital for several weeks, and now in a nursing home rehabilitating. She makes some questionable decisions, but never anything where we needed to take her car keys or credit cards or anything. Anyway, my parents have been taking care of things at her house and her bills and such. Long story short: they uncovered a series of notes she had made that led them to check her banking information and found that she has fallen victim to multiple phone scams. They're still adding things up, but so far it looks like she has lost at least $71K.
I know you're supposed to report these things to the FTC, but she's confused, embarrassed, and not being very forthcoming with information so I'm not even sure how to go about that. It's been going on over the course of several months. So...I know there's probably nothing to do to recover anything, but can you advise on how to deal with reporting to authorities? Who to contact? How to report with limited info? Is there even any point?
We don't want to completely restrict her freedoms, but how do we manage her finances effectively so this doesn't happen again?
Apologies if this is the wrong sub!
Submitted August 30, 2017 at 12:48AM by mutha_fucking_nature http://ift.tt/2x3nwEp
