> Just been watching your piece on Breakfast News. My cousin, 71 and
> disabled has lost £35,000 + on a variety of scams. Only discovered when he
> had to be admitted to hospital. He kept all the mail and we filled 2
> garden sheds with junk/scam mail when we cleaned up the house. We had his
> mail rediected to us for 12 months but he 'had a word' with his local
> postman who continued to deliver some of the scam mail.
>
> When the scam mail reduced to 1 every few days we stopped the redirection.
> Within 2 weeks he
> was replying again and like your mother gets very angry when we tell him
> that he hasn't won anything and its a scam. He had used all the savings he
> could easily access, taken out a bank loan of £25,000 and run up £12,000 on
> 2 credit cards. We have reduced his debt to £8000 but he is going to
> quickly run up debts again. As we are only cousins and didn't know him
> especially well before becomeing involved in his care it is very difficult
> to know what to do next.
>
> I have tried to make a complaint against Natwest Bank who were oblivious to
> the fact that he was sometimes writing £100 worth of £10 and £20 cheques a
> day and then gave him a loan that he couldn't possibly afford to repay, but
> because he didn't tell them he was going to use the money for a lottery
> scam they are not at fault!!!!


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