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Read more about the devastating effect scams can have below.
Scams' Devastating Impact on Victims' Families
Fraud often leaves emotional pain and financial ruin for everyone left in its wake.
Carisa Kelly was filled with rage and frustration last summer after criminals stole $300,000 from her 73-year-old mother in an elaborate computer help desk scam.
“My mom was victimized,” Kelly says, “but it affected the whole family.”
Her mother, who lives alone in the Pacific Northwest, hid what was happening from her loved ones.
Gone are the retirement investments her mother carefully accrued over several decades, along with funds her mother had earmarked for her family’s future: down payments on homes for her children and college tuition for her grandchildren. “On top of everything, my mother may have to sell her house to cover the tax debt,” says Kelly, a New York City costume designer who’s had to spend hundreds of hours reporting the scam and looking for ways to recover the stolen money.
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