Sheriffs' Office

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Originally Posted by P.W.H.

What a story, BobL. I have long since come to the conclusion that some people are nothing but a boil on the behind of the universe.
Looks like your son met up with one of them.

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Thanks PWH. There's even more to the story that I can't really discuss in a place like this.

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At least it doesn't sound like she was the sort to take dozens of pensioners to the cleaners for hundreds of thousands (each). Who,
of course, also never have any assets or any money to pay back what they embezzled. Clamping their Ferraris doesn't usually do
much good either.

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I don't think she would have had the slightest scruple about taking money from anyone.

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Originally Posted by BobL

Thanks PWH. There's even more to the story that I can't really discuss in a place like this.



I don't think she would have had the slightest scruple about taking money from anyone.

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Oh, absolutely not, I am sure. But you need a Beemer or a Merc, a chrome plated office and a sharp looking suit before you can bilk some clueless oldies out of hundreds of thousands by making them take out a mortgage on their home to "invest it in an opportunity with up to 25% returns over 5 years".

We had more than a dozen of that kind of operator here in NZ over the last 2-3 decades. Some of them are doing time, some of them ran away to your side of the pond, but in any case, they managed to hide most of the money in a way that some old folk lost their nest egg and some lost their home.

Your old woman there looks like a rank amateur by comparison. It rankles all the same - just the consequences aren't quite as dire.