Haven't been mentally able to be here much lately......being that it was exactly a year ago when I went through my mothers ID Theft by the home care RN for my Mother who was dying of cancer. The triggers & flashbacks of similar things that you have talked about are as vivid in my mind today as they were when they happened last year. The memories have been haunting me now for weeks at a much higher level than it had for a while.

There were so many things that happened in just 5 days......these people that do this are horrible & need to be stopped. The worst part of my situation was that I caught the things as they happened so there wasn't enough proof for the DA to be able to prosecute her.

When someone actually gets into the home & works from inside with information that is easily gotten from someone whose cognative abilities are progressivly getting worse as the cancer spreads is horrible. Like you, I want to yell out to the world to watch out for these things that can happen. I saw it happening but no one would believe me.....& then the police were called out on me saying that some annonamous person reported that I was abusing my Mother.....while everything was going on around me.....so even the police initially wouldn't listen to me because I was supposedly the bad person.

I didn't mean to hijack your thread, but when I read it, the flashing red of anger flared up about people that do this kind of thing. Unfortunately for me, triggers seem to be all around me right now so it doesn't take much to set me off on this subject.

The sad part was that my Mother didn't know much about what was going on....& I was trying to let her know enough without upsetting her.....her response was "why would anyone want to do this to me.....I don't have enough money to matter to anyone?"

I am very glad that you were knowing enough to not fall for something like what happened to you......the sad part is that they also prey on the older people whose minds are so trusting & can't even conceive of something like that happening to them. For me, the really hard part was that I saw things happening around me constantly for 5 days. I caught a phone converstation requesting a credit card in my mothers name & then the phone chord was cut at the base after I got hold of the cordless phone. No one could imagine anything like that happening. It also seems that they will go to all extremes to protect themselves when they feel presured.....as the RN OD'ed my Mother on morphine......for what reason I probably will never know.

It is good to warn people often of these things that happen....in hopes that if even one person can be helped with a warning......the sad part is that most people who are performing these scams never get caught. All I can pray is that in the end, they will get what they really deserve. I wasn't physically harmed by her.....but unfortunately living through the experience & threats, I ended up so stressed that nausea took over & I couldn't eat or drink anything for months.....& ended up in the hospital myself just a few hours before my Mother died. Weight loss took over my body & the flashbacks & nightmares took over my mind. But I do have hope that when I recover more I will be able to get together with others who have been harmed by people like this & put out a strong fight against this......especially in my case for the elderly.....even though it is needed throughout all age groups.

Thank you for the warning....it is important for everyone to realize that scams are all around us constantly & we definitely need to BEWARE.

Debbie