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Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks
Reminds me of a phone call I got last week. My best friend told me his recently widowed mother-in-law sent $600,000 in Bitcoin over the last few months to some guy she met online "who loves her but can't access his bank account because he's working on an oil rig and will pay her back as soon as he gets off". $600,000, vaporized. The guy (who she never even actually spoke to) coached her through withdrawing the cash and opening a Coinbase account. FBI told my buddy she'll never get a penny of it back. All the life insurance money she got from her husband's death plus she took out a home equity loan. Will have to sell her house in Queen Creek AZ and move back to Springfield and live in a room in her sister's house.
She apparently kept insisting the guy was real even during the meeting with the FBI agent. When reality finally hit her, my buddy said she was so depressed and humiliated that they had to remove the gun she had in her house and basically put her on suicide watch.
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May he overdose on Fentanyl.
I know a grave that gets shit on during homecoming weekend every year. It's hilarious because everyone knows it's one of three people, but no one even bothers to care which one it is because it was well earned. Bitch took hundreds of thousands of dollars from several old men in the form of cash, payments via check, and titled assets prior to their death. The families all discovered it post funeral and nothing ever came of it. Worse yet, the houses she scavenged continue to be resided in by her shitbum descendants who have all become professional grifters and .gov dependents themselves. The families can't even drive by dad or grampa's old house without being reminded of what she did.
She had been quietly cashing mid 3 digit checks for several months and filed for lost titles on multiple vehicles before we finally caught her with enough proof she was at least going to face forgery charges. If it wasn't for having a bank on the hook for their part in the mess it was looking like even having proof wasn't going to be enough to get her exposed.
Most funeral dates that get celebrated out here in BFE are bankers from the 80's, but she ranks right there with them and if you're in the right bar on the right date, and know why you're there on that date, you get to drink for free.