> My family have been struggling for just over two years now, just
> as you describe, over scam mail and phonecalls to my mother. Last
> week, before I was told of this website, I wrote, out of shear
> frustration, anger and desperation, a letter to the Court of Protection and
> to Jaqui Smith, Home Secretary, copy to all professionals involved with my
> mother (who have not been able to progress Power of Attorney very far over
> the last 8 months, and we have been warned by the fraud office that we may
> not get it) to ask for a special investigation to be set up to look at
> this sort of scam from all angles, since no-one seems to be able to act.
>
> It would be quite easy to stop once spotted if the Royal Mail rules were
> changed and the family and police were allowed to act together to stop the
> contact from the scams. My mother's MP, who happens to now be Shadow Home
> Secretary, just said he 'would bear it in mind' when I said that the Law
> needs to be changed.
>
> What horrifies our family is that the fraud office tells us that they know
> that the money goes to terrorrism and drug-dealing, which is the last thing
> my mother would think of supporting because she still believes she is a
> committed Christian although her actions no longer conform to her belief.
> In our experience there is utter ruthless evil behind these particular
> scams.
>
> I am about to write to Help-the-Aged, who have been having a campaign
> against elder abuse, to ask whether there is any way it can help, not just
> to educate, which is not going to help in this particular type of scam
> with people like my mother, but to campaign for an approach as I describe
> above.
>
> This is the first 'self-help' type of facility I have come across; though
> I would have failed to find it searching the internet (which I had already
> tried), because the name has no logical connection with fraud or scams. I
> had begun to realise that this route is going to be very necessary in
> order to try to achieve any changes.
>
> I am recently retired GP, had not come across anything like this before, and
> partly retired slightly early to be able to give the time and energy to
> try to sort my mother out- there has been a lot of work put in by my
> family and our solicitor, with very little to show for it because Human
> Rights legislation is obstructive when it comes to dealing with scams, and
> international law is inadequate. I agree about the attitude of Royal
> Mail;BT processes are rigid, but if one can find an individual to speak to
> they are very helpful within their rules.
>
> Callblocker was supposed to stop the international phonecalls, but does
> not; I have written to them several times about how to improve the system
> but they do not respond. I suspect that there is bribery and fraud going
> on somewhere in the telecommunication network, and wrote to BT asking them
> to investigate, but only got a telephone call to say they would pass on my
> concerns - one cannot reach the managers of either BT or Royal Mail by any
> means.






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