TJ - Story 013

> After hearing you on GMTV it rang alarm bells with the amount of
> scam mail my dad of 77 years is receiving. I have had numerous 'words'
> with him asking him not to reply to them but not until last week when I
> confronted him on what money he was sending that I realised the extent of
> things. I have now discovered the amount is thousands of pounds. He seems
> to have paid with his visa card and I have managed to claim £800 from last
> month and this current one. I have found one bill from 2006 which was
> just short of £1000 in one month. I have now changed his phone number and
> made it x directory. I have also now arranged to pick up his mail from
> the post offfice so I can check it before he has a chance to get sucked in
> again. His is mostly from the Canadian Lottery and European Lottery
> Guild. When I contacted the Trading Standards they told me I would have
> difficulty getting the money back as it was now out of the country but I
> was also asked if I could prove it was a scam.
> Sorry but anyone fleecing an old man of hundreds of pounds a
> month!!!!They weren't much help. I was also most surprised when the chap
> had never heard of your campaign. I like you think it is outrageous that
> nothing is being done about this major problem. Do you think he could
> have a claim against his visa company for previous years?
>
> Regards Isobel