[notfarnow]

My grandmother lost ~300k to scammers. Started with small stuff, like buying into sweepstakes. By the end it was "paying tax on a huge lottery win" and transferring large sums.

By the time the family found out it was too late.

Sad, because my grandmother was always extremely tight-fisted and cynical. But as she lost her faculties, she became a cash cow for scammers.