Reddit user Due_Database916 says their 63-year-old mother has lost roughly $650k of her life savings in a WhatsApp romance scam involving cryptocurrency, a type of long-running fraud known as a “pig butchering scam,” and now refuses to accept that she was deceived. The post details years of financial instability followed by what the user describes as the most devastating loss yet.
Due_Database wrote, “She has a history of doing this (in other forms) dating back to when I was young. She has not and will not see a doctor or hand over control of her finances. She’s still working and seemingly of sound mind. But I worry she will find a way to give the rest of it away. I also don’t know how she’ll afford living, and I don’t know what to do.”
