Me and my family have an adopted brother who has been with us for the past several years, and recently we got a message from his brother and sister wanting to contact him. So my mother has been talking to them and they've been showing her their terrible living conditions and how they barely make any money etc. They never ask for money directly, but my mother pried and eventually they admitted to needing about $50 for groceries which my mother sent to them.
since then the money amounts they need have only escalated. At first they needed groceries, then it was a refrigerator and it's getting even larger. While it hasn't been that much of a drain on my parents so far, my dad is getting more and more worried that they're being taken for a ride. It has all the classic signs of a scammer to me, but whenever we explain to my mom she gets angry and says we should be charitable and not so cynical. Apparently they're fairly legitimate in that they are my brother's family, and they do video chat calls with her (which if they're so desperate for money, how do they own a computer with a webcam?) Are we right to be worried? Is there a chance that this could harm my brother's family, or even harm us as well? My nightmare scenario is that someone in Honduras gets wind that they have a benefactor in the states, and my parents end up getting blackmailed or extorted for large amounts of money. Any sort of advice would help.
Submitted March 05, 2017 at 01:22AM by SilverfireSage http://ift.tt/2lJeYJI Advice
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