u/Independent_Guard433

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Is my dad being scammed by this “Tesla stock holding model”?

My dad (54M) is talking to a girl (32F) that he met online. He tells me she is a model and has money because she invested in tesla when it was brand new apparently she bought stocks for $17 a share, which sounds like bs to me because A- I looked it up and they were $19 a share upon opening and B- they came available for purchase in 2010 which means she was what, 16? I don’t even know if you can buy stocks that young? Whatever. She told him she’s loaded basically because of this. He’s never met her but apparently he’s gonna invite her to our house, where my fiancé (34M) and I (31F) are staying and also hosting our wedding this summer, he plans on inviting her for July 4th weekend AND MY WEDDING IS JULY 6th in the same house. I think the age gap is wildly inappropriate and kinda gross because she and I would have been in diapers at the same time. But even if she was not 32, she seems fake and I don’t like it. What do I do?
UPDATE
he just told me they only use Telegram to speak to each other and now I’m 100% sure she’s a scam, right?

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u/Independent_Guard433 — 5 days ago
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Dad is dating someone that is my age.

My dad (54M) is talking to a girl (32F) that he met online. He tells me she is a model and has money because she invested in tesla when it was brand new apparently she bought stocks for $17 a share, which sounds like bs to me because A- I looked it up and they were $19 a share upon opening and B- they came available for purchase in 2010 which means she was what, 16? I don’t even know if you can buy stocks that young? Whatever. She told him she’s loaded basically because of this. He’s never met her but apparently he’s gonna invite her to our house, where my fiancé (34M) and I (31F) are staying and also hosting our wedding this summer, he plans on inviting her for July 4th weekend AND MY WEDDING IS JULY 6th in the same house. I think the age gap is wildly inappropriate and kinda gross because she and I would have been in diapers at the same time. But even if she was not 32, she seems fake and I don’t like it. What do I do?

[UPDATE]

Okay so first, I’m really glad I posted this because I was definitely, as some people said, worried about the wrong thing. I was fixated on a stranger being at my wedding and how young she was. When wow, she’s obviously not real and a scammer, and I had suspicions about that but after all of your comments and some education from here and the scams subreddit I definitely think that’s the case. I did some research on the girl after begging my dad to show me a photo and give me a name. And also finding out that they were communicating through Telegram and not phone numbers! (Duh) I found so many different social media accounts on several platforms that were similar and repetitive videos of her saying random things and one of the instagrams led me to her Of account. I think that account might be the real person. But I 100% do not think that is who is talking to my dad on telegram. Anyway, I showed my dad some of this and told him I think who he’s talking to is not really that girl, he noted that he tried to move the conversation to phone numbers and they had acted as though they didn’t trust him yet! LMAO. Anyway, he told me he messaged her and said that he didn’t know if she was real so he was gonna end the conversation, he told me he’s deleting the app. I hope he really is. I don’t think he sent any money to this person or invested in anything through them yet, I think we caught it early and I’m again so grateful that we have the kind of relationship that he would share with me that he’s talking to someone early enough for this to be spotted before it’s too late. (Though I don’t know if he would tell me if he did indeed lose money this way if he was embarrassed.) But it’s really very sad, he’s been alone romantically for 15 years and I know he’s lonely and just wants love. I just hope he stops looking for it online. It makes me worried to move away from him after the wedding. I’m very thankful he seemed to listen to me when I started showing him all the accounts.. I just don’t know how to help him emotionally deal with it, is there support groups for people who have been romantically scammed? Thank y’all so much for helping me, guys. Really.

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u/Independent_Guard433 — 5 days ago