I think my mother is getting scammed by a guy in Dubai.
For 5 years now my 77yr old mother has been in contact with a guy named Micheal on the internet, phone and email, etc. Now I don’t know all the details but she won’t tell me much. What I’m going to tell you is all know.
He drained her bank account of over $2 million by asking for money and now they have a bitcoin business together where they transfer money to “clients” using bitcoin. I heard her phone calls last month when her bank declined a transfer of 100k and closed her account. Some of the things they said are sketchy things she’s doing like, she didn’t know the clients name and they said the bank account it came from was also a person named Michael. So my thought immediately was that it was the same person she’s got the business with. She said it wasn’t. But there are other things too. She allows him to remote connect to her computer and I saw one day he was looking through her email without her permission.
Now they apparently are starting another business together. She said it’s a construction business and wouldn’t tell me more. She doesn’t seem to know what she’s doing and why. When I asked what kind of business she said construction and I said why and she said I dont know in a submissive tone. The banks that closed her accounts obviously know something is up. And I do too. This Michael dude keeps telling her that he will come visit her in the states and will give her the money back and then take over the businesses but it’s been 5 years of saying this and I’m scared she’s being scammed. Hook line and sinker. I don’t know what to do. But I am going to start to gather more information so I can tell the fbi. Just don’t know how to do it, and what rights I have to interfere. Like do I have the right to call the banks she has and let them know. I don’t know what to do. Someone help please.