My dad keeps falling for scams and I don't know what to do as he drags the whole family into debt
To keep things informative but short, my father never really understood how things work in Canada, and I think this misunderstanding is what led to all this... Bullshit.
First scam he fell for was just after COVID. Some guy called Rajesh would ask for money so he can give a crash course on business analysis and then give whoever paid a 20 page poorly done resume. He kept on doing those for about a year. The next one is where everything went downhill.
Somehow, someway, my dad got into crypto, and decided he needed a crypto wallet. Instead of learning about this the normal way, he decided to talk with someone who supposedly knew their shit. Next thing you know they needed access to his JOINT bank account with mother, and he just... Gave them the password to the whole family bank account. They took about a thousand before mother noticed and shut it all down, but in total they took like 20k from dad's credit cards.
Third one was apparently so bad that my father never told me, and my mother refused to say, but i know it's upwards of 100k. Keep in mind that we do not have this kind of money. We are barely getting by over here. He's literally just taking out loans from the bank and lines of credit. He maxed out all his credit cards.
After his devastating folly, he got a large Vinfast SUV EV to work Uber instead of getting an actual job, and we thought that was the end of it...
Not.
The past year or so, he's been in contact with people who wanted him to be their "Oil Broker" so they can all collect on about 10 million USD. He has been paying them this past year or so, money that should have been going to the bank or to even us.
Apparently, I just found out tonight that he somehow loaned more cash from his old friends, other people, and more people, and faked my mother's consent for a student loan so he can pay the "final stage" of this whole ordeal. He still doesn't have enough and idk what he's planning now.
We've talked to him, multiple times now, and he always brushes us off and says that he believes these people will give him his money back. They just keep asking for more. We gave him so many opportunities to go back abroad and work excellent jobs, but he denies it everytime. He's a pharmacist. Or was, at least.
Aside from begging the cops to arrest him, I have no idea what to do now. We're trying to separate our joint assets from him so the bank doesn't take our house but he refuses to take his name out from some sort of ego or pride. Idk. He refuses to cooperate, he refuses to even listen.
I'm just waiting to graduate so I can work abroad and get my family out because at this point I see no other way out.