How to understand it all

The blog shows the actual email transcripts and related documents related to the financial fraud inflicted on a vulnerable and financially incompetent senior citizen.

Note that the the reports and dates are accurate, including misspelling of words, poor grammar, etc.

The vulnerable senior was involved in MULTIPLE scams with presumably MULTIPLE different groups of scammers, at the same time.  I believe that the different scam scenario groups did not know about each other, at least not until no earlier than Feb, 2010, possibly after that.  For the lonely senior widower, the high level of  stimulation that came through the repeated  telephone and email interactions was, I am sure, exciting.  He was also promised millions of dollars - multiple fortunes, all for the small price of the fees they asked him to pay.  The military brotherhood connection of one scam was also an effective bait.

The phone was ringing 24/7 at that time. The senior Victim was driving from bank to bank and from Western Union to Western Union, to avoid suspicion, as instructed by the scammers.

When faced with the truth, the senior victim refused to consistently believe he was being scammed.

Emergency conservatorship Protected Person status was awarded by court order in March, 2010.  Prior to that, the financial "bleeding" continued, largely unabated, except for what is described in the reports, achievable through Power of Attorney (which was revoked twice).  Once liquid money resources were not available, scammers encourage the senior to sell valuables or to consider getting loans.  In fact, in this case, the Senior Victim DID borrow $48,000 in early January, 2010, which he was in process of sending to scammers before the loan was discovered and 75% of its loss was prevented/stopped by family members.

Vulnerable seniors who get CONNED are also CONNED to believe that their family members need to be kept out of the loop, as is shown in this case.  The Bank saw the financial "bleeding" for a long time, too long,  before they acted to inform responsible family members.