I share my experience as a scam victim so people would be aware and not make the same mistake as I did. I saw an advert about cryptocurrency trading and making money from investing in cryptocurrency so i decided to give it a try and i filled out my details (phone number, email and name) after that i started receiving calls from crypto investment companies. I decided to invest in a company called Profit X. They told me they were working on a project that would generate profits for me, so I started with $250 and after sometime they started showing me profits which is fake by the way but I did not know at that time. To cut the long story short they stole about $10k from my account. I wasn't aware of how they operated then. Anyone who tells you to invest with them online is definitely a scammer. I was lucky to come across a company called reimbursementshark that helps people recover money from scams. They asked me for all the transactions I made with the scammer. I think that was how they were able to recover everything I lost to him after it all. The company took 10% of the recovered funds, which I considered worth it since I had already assumed I had lost all of my money and almost gave up. Be careful guys and if you have also been a victim of a scam you can also contact them. The website is reimbursementshark.com

I'm dealing with the problem of my own and I'm having a hard time finding a lawyer who can help. I don't have gobs and gobs of money to pay upfront and I'm having a hard time trying to find someone within the legal aid area due to their lack of funds or lack of lawyers who can help. I'm doing my homework to the best of my ability, but I can sure use some help right now to see if someone can help me stop possible predatory person from getting my dad's money from his life insurance policy. I found out certain details that makes me suspect my dad may have been taken advantage of during the last year's and especially weeks of his life. My dad was declining over a period of years, but within the last three weeks of his life, I think someone put him up to making them the life insurance beneficiary for the proceeds. Yes, I highly suspect undue influence and manipulation. I also don't know that my dad wasn't abused in other ways. It seems funny my dad had a lady "friend" who I don't know. This lady to me is a stranger and I'm yet to find out who she really is. I don't know that she didn't take advantage of my dad, I really have serious suspicions on this one. She may claim to have been a caregiver, but even caregivers can be abusive and take advantage of people. If it can happen in nursing homes, it can happen outside of them.

I'd like to know where to turn and what to do about a situation I suspect happened when my dad was still alive. According to his death certificate, he had presumed Alzheimer's for years. The last weeks of his life was adult failure to thrive, during which time he suddenly changed his life insurance policy beneficiary, and I don't currently know who that beneficiary is but it's not me. I was abused for many years by my parents, and I feel their compensation would be fair especially after losing a sister to abuse I almost died of. I discovered that my mom was the original beneficiary until nine years after she died. I find it odd that my dad had a "friend" who got the house through a transfer on death filed in 2008. I don't know that the same person may also be the life insurance beneficiary. When my dad changed his beneficiary right before he died, this was a last minute thing, and predatory people are motivated to stay undetected and under the radar. This problem happened in Lorain County Ohio. I wonder just how competent dad was when he filled out a transfer on death in 2008, because this "friend"got the house, a free house. It makes me mad to know this same friend may also be the beneficiary and get the money that should've gone to surviving abuse victims that my dad helped to damage along with his abusive wife who actually is recorded to be a child killer. Both of my abusers are now gone, but it would only be right to give that money or at least half of it to family members they damaged for life through abuse. Yes, call it compensation for surviving abuse victims. I tried to take care of this when my abuses were still living, but none of the witnesses wanted to get involved, and since I was young I didn't know anything about the legal system, not even subpoena. Many times surviving victims come back on their abusers as adults due to abuse during their childhood, But since things happened differently, I'm not exactly sure what to do in my unusual type of situation

and also the friend that tried to help her sell her property turned out to be ficticious and not a friend at all

My mom a senior citizen got scammed at work by a woman that might be in a organized scam group,dont know what to do

I need an attorney for getting back money on a double payment to a doctor, IDM

With the rise of the market these days their are more investment scams than ever.

my parents got taken for 13,000 on a stupid timeshare scam that i only recently found out about. my sister apperently talked them into investing in this thing, and because my dad was 'ashamed' he wasnt going to tell me until i found the letter in the drawer of his desk while cleaning.
now, i dont know how much involvment my sister had in this, i did go online to try to see what info i could find, and its true that the company/guy who ran company was found a fraud..
is there anything i can do to help him? at first i thought my sister straight took the money, im not so sure she didnt.

You are right about that however, the elephant in the room is the fraud perpetuated by the seminars on creating "trusts" to shield assets while becomming eligible for Medi-Cal. Although the State of California is cracking down - and there is even talk about extending the look-back period on asset transfers, what most seniors are not aware of is how money can be their own downfall.

Many instances of financial elder abuse start with the mistaken notion that 'shielding assets' is not worth risk.

I'd be interested in any others who have dealt with financial elder abuse, or work in the field.

To help reduce the chance fraud, I would suggest people look into working with a fee-only registered investment advisor.