Mom can't be convinced otherwise, no hope left?
I'm out of ideas on how to salvage my mom from this scammer hell. Any advice is appreciated.
About a year ago my mother started talking to someone on Facebook. A profile based of a popular dog trainer reached out to her after she had liked a post and they began to chat about dogs etc.
We found out 8 months back and told her to cut it out and that it was a scam, showed her a few examples of why, and left it at that thinking she'd be reasonable.
6 months back we found out she was talking again and had a serious talk about cutting this out and that it's not healthy. Explained the concept of romance scams and went in depth to make sure she knew what was up.
Over the next week we found out she was still in contact via Whatsapp and gave away 7k via apple gift cards. We confiscated her phone and blocked access to the Internet and gave her a new number. Reported all of the info to local police / ftc / etc. She went ballistic. Would stare at the ceiling for hours, throw the flip phone we got her etc.
She finally calmed down a bit, went to a crime victims center, went to a regular therapist, etc. We also talked extensively about the problem and how to resolve it.
Dad didn't want to do couples therapy but they seemed kinda okay again so didn't seem like that big of a deal.
Cut to last week and we return the phone with explicit condition that she not contact the guy. My brother also got power of attorney and hooked up all of the financial accounts so they're easily monitored. Found out yesterday that she immediately went on Facebook, contacted the guy, and sent him $100 in apple gift cards.
Broke the news to our dad who basically said fuck it they're divorcing; they're both late 70s.
It's obviously a result of years of neglect in their relationship and my dad could absolutely be doing more but yeah sucks that my mom can't be convinced not to talk to a scammer.