Hey guys, throwaway account here. So I just recently found out from my mother that she had been sending over money via wire transfers over the past 5 months to a person who is supposedly a doctor from a foreign country. Long story short, this man messaged my mother via a messenger app randomly and promised that he would send her a "consignment box" which contains about $3-4 million dollars if she pays a delivery fee. The "doctor" told her that she could keep about 50% of the money when she gets it. So apparently my mother has been sending over more than 5 wire transfers totaling more than $100,000 over the past months- I'm assuming that the "doctor" had made excuses about not receiving the funds or some issues going on so that she can keep sending him more money. My mother confessed all this happening recently to my father and I, as she finally recognized it was a scam. I'm not sure if this is categorized as a romance scam or what not, but I read over some of the messages and he was referring her to as "honey". I didn't read the full conversation because I honestly don't want to go that much into it. Our family and I went to the bank that my mother had sent wire transfers out to (she went to many different branches), and the one bank we went to basically told us they couldn't do anything after discussing the matters with their fraud investigations team- the reason being that my mother voluntarily sent over the money herself. They told us our only option left was to take the legal route. We also filed a police report and the main investigator there told us the chances of getting the money back and/or catching the criminal was slim to none but that they would contact us back.
Do you guys have any advice on what to do? My mother had sent over 6-7 wire transfers at different branches of the bank over the course of 4-5 months. Shouldnt the bank have given us a warning or have some red flags? Can we argue this in court? Is this worth hiring a lawyer for? If anyone has any advice or any direction I can take with this please feel free to help out. Appreciate it thank you Reddit!!!
Submitted November 25, 2020 at 06:13PM by ketchupthrowaway123 https://ift.tt/376K0Vz
