> Hi Marilyn,
>
> I just read your article on the BBC web site today, 8th September 08.
> Your mother's story very much echos my own mother's experience over the
> last 5 or 6 years of her life. She was also in her 80's.
>
> I had the same difficulty trying to get my mother to see that she was
> being scammed. She also had her drawers and cupboards full of plastic
> bags containing hundreds of these scam letters. Many of them were quite
> sophisticated scams and one could see that a lot of work had gone in to
> make them really get under the skin of the vulnerable. It is clear that
> this scam industry must employ hundreds of people including the letter
> designers, the printing houses that produce the mail and banks who handle
> the money.
>
> It is wonderful that you have begun a campaign to make people aware of the
> extent of the problem.
>
> Perhaps it is also possible to get BBC Panorama or Channel 4 Dispatches or
> one of the broadsheet papers (or the police?) to do an in-depth
> investigation to track down some of the scammers- they need to be
> prosecuted.
>
> E-mail me if you want more about my mother's experience.
>
> Best,
>
> Mike







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