Does anybody here have experience with being the victim of financial crimes?
Someone in recent days scammed an elderly member of my family out of a lot of money; it wasn't quite "Nigerian Prince" levels of obvious but still pretty dumb "I'm your son/daughter in trouble, phone doesn't work, need the money now" kind of a ploy and unfortunately it worked. To effect the transfer the scammer provided a name, home address and bank account. I'm urging said family member to file a police report and hoping that given the criminal provided personal identifying information and is probably relying on shame/embarassment for the crime to go unreported, maybe there's a hope if a report actually does get filed?
Hoping to occupy my mind with feedback from the CP hivemind rather than trying to figure out how to find a Sicilian collections agent for hire in Scarborough.
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