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Hentges, Shelley R 0 Reputation points
2026-03-19T15:29:36.7933333+00:00

I need to talk to someone about a couple of people scamming my 78 year old mother out of money and keeps asking her for more money and we have the email that they are using and proof of it and now the one person is asking for $117.000 saying that her husband said but the thing is that her husband has been died for 14 years.

So what do I have to do so that they stop and leaves her a lone?

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  1. Jeronimo Fuerte 38,080 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2026-03-19T18:12:05.77+00:00

    Hi! The safest immediate step is to stop all contact, not send any more money, keep screenshots, email headers, payment records, chat history, and the email address they are using as evidence. In Microsoft Teams Free, suspicious chats, messages, images, files, or communities can be reported through Report a concern.. If the contact also came by email, those messages should be reported as phishing/junk as well.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/report-a-concern-in-microsoft-teams-free-2e2ea20c-2866-4b65-a979-8132c02dc231

    Because money is involved and the victim is elderly, I strongly recommend filing a police report as soon as possible.

    If any payment was already sent, contact the bank, card issuer, wire service, or crypto platform immediately to try to stop or reverse the transaction, and ask them to flag the account for fraud.

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