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Thanks, I have already told them to change the bank accounts and have tracking put on their social security numbers and such. They also canceled credit
cards and opened other accounts.
They were ashamed to tell me stating, " I was so stupid. How could I let him do this to me." I assured them that this stuff happens often and the best thing to do was to try and get this guy before he can do it to anyone else.
He has charges on my states website in another county for obtaining money by false pretenses and other crimes. There are numerous charges in civil court for debt. I am attempting to contact the people on those cases to see if they had similar experience. I think to prove fraud I need someone else to help prove that his contracts were known lies before he gave them to my parents. Is that correct? I plan on pursuing elder abuse charges as well. I know one other person he did this to was an elderly person.
I have found the place this person lives via my own investigation, but when I looked up the information on the property his name was not on it. Thanks for any information you have on fraud or elder abuse that you can share.
A Securities lawyer is probably the route to go if the person is in your state and has assets - but I bet the whole thing was an illusion. See if their state has a securities or commodities or investor fraud task force that you can file a complaint with. You know they won't be the only ones taken by this person. Talk around to see who else was taken and what the connection is. There could be some 3rd person/institutional liability here.
As they likely gave him lots of personal identity info, you should place a fraud alert & identity theft on their credit cards - contact the big 3 reporting firms to do this (e.g. TransUnion); also go to their bank and let them know. You may want to close down any accounts that Mr Fraud had/has account # access to. Like they went for dinner and paid and he had access to get their cc #. Check kiting still happens too.
This could be a good time to consolidate just how they do or manage their finances and have you or whichever child wants to be financially the overseerer for them.
Are they the type that were scared to tell you because they were ashamed?
On a positive note, they might be able to take the loss off on their taxes.