It must be so hard to step back when a family member is obviously being scammed.
My Dad was targeted a couple of times, I caught a couple of guys in his garage, mixing a bit of cement, they said they were fixing a ridge tile. I told them to pack up and get their van off my Dad's drive before I called the Police and they scarpered.
But, there was one insidious guy who my Dad handed £200 to on a regular basis, to apparently trim a tree.
Even though my Dad had a gardener who came every week and trimmed his shrubs once a year, I could not get him to stop paying this man who did nothing.
I pleaded with him to telephone me the next time, so I could drive up and catch him but he never did. Just told me later, that the man had knocked on his kitchen window and the tree was trimmed.
My Dad was fully compos mentis, was still driving, went out for lunch every day, paid his own bills, shopped and generally cared for himself and was extremely careful with his money and yet, he still paid these men.
Very frustrating but I think that he was scared of them and just paid them to make them go away.
Misaligned holes in flat pack garden furniture
To go through chemo therapy or choose not to?