Quote from: Forsyth Jones on Today at 09:05:29 PM

Quote from: uneng on June 27, 2024, 07:02:11 PM

How far do people go to feed a gambling addiction?

In this story we have a young bank teller, 28 years old lady, who stole 28,000$ from four different elders who were suffering from health and cognitive problems. Her goal was to fuel a gambling addiction, as presented by the defense at the court.

Families must be attentive to their elders when going to the bank and dealing with money in general. Scammers and thieves are everywhere and always ready to take advantage of the vulnerability of such individuals at an advanced age.

A similar case happened to my grams, who has little knowledge of technology. She accesses her bank account via her cell phone. One day she received a call from the bank manager telling her to go to the branch urgently. From what she said, the call was intercepted by someone who claimed to be a bank employee. He then asked for sensitive account information, such as the password to access the app and her credit card information. Unfortunately, she was tricked and gave up all the access details.

The result was a withdrawal about of $1000 debited from her account and a loan that I don't remember the amount, but it was very high. Unfortunately, she was alone at home. There was no one to stop her from doing what she did.

Deceiving the elderly and other vulnerable people is a strategy often adopted by criminals. They carry out these scams without much effort. Unless the elderly person is not accompanied when they carry out the scam, they can succeed.

One of the main reasons on why those criminals would really be targeting out the elderly because they are really that easily on getting fooled specially in todays technology on which it is really that too easy to execute
specially on getting someones personal details on which it would really be causing up that those kind of incidents on those funds stolen without permission just because you had just that been fooled out.
Even lets say that someone is really that together with the elderly but if those transactions made out privately then it would really be still having those high chances that it would really be that become
a successful way of stealing funds on which we know that once information is really that leaked out then those funds are really that on accessed. In this case on which we've seen we are really that seeing
someone is really that addicted on gambling, and having those acts on making use of other peoples funds just to feed up his/her addiction. As shown that this is really talking about on a bank teller which
mostly a woman which it is really that unlikely on seeing this kind of condition on a female gender on which we know that they are really that good when it comes to self control and being practical in terms of money.
This do really proves out that there's no gender that would be having some exemptions in speaking about addiction. Everyone could really be affected and if you arent that good when it comes to self control
and discipline then you are really that highly susceptible with that gambling addiction that we do call.