David Owen’s mother was fooled by a group of expert criminals. The rest of his family was fooled by her.
The voice mail was from my mother’s longtime stockbroker, in the private-client department at Charles Schwab. “We’ve had some requests for large cash withdrawals from her account,” she said, and asked me to call her back. “We’re afraid that maybe someone has gotten to her. She requested two hundred thousand out.” She’d taken the money from a trust that she inherited from her own mother; now, the broker said, she had requested even more money.
I called back immediately and told the person who took my call to stop everything. Then I called my mother, who is in her late eighties and lives alone, in Kansas City, in a retirement community near a shopping area called the Country Club Plaza. She angrily said that she knew what she was doing, and told me to butt out. Eventually, under pressure, she explained that she’d won enough money to set up our family for life, and that, if I interfered, I would ruin everything.
Back on the phone to Schwab. Then to the local bank where my mother had a checking account. Then e-mails to my daughter’s husband and an old high-school friend . Then phone calls or e-mails to my siblings, the Kansas City Police Department, the F.B.I., my mother’s accountant, and various state and federal fraud-related agencies and departments. That evening, my sister Anne, who’s a psychologist and lives about an hour away from my mother, visited her in her apartment.
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