The internet has urged a woman not to give her parents money, who have lost theirs to scams.
Posted to Reddit‘s r/AmITheA**hole forum, a woman under the anonymous username u/snd19i shared her story to get opinions from the “AITA” community. The popular post has over 12,000 upvotes and 1,000 comments.
“My parents are terrible with money,” the original poster (OP) began. She explained how her father gambled $100,000 in savings away in “risky” penny stocks that got wiped out in 2008, which forced them to move into a one-bedroom apartment. Then, her mother fell for a multi-level marketing (MLM) scam. That made them lose $28,000 and a down payment on a house they were saving for. The OP continuously “begged” them not to fall for the scams and showed them proof but they didn’t listen to her.
She wrote, “Then recently they fall for a college signup scam and lost $32,000. They weren’t signing up for college they just needed a loan and tried to go though a ‘private broker’ who promised to get them a school loan that they would use on whatever they wanted.
“I went with them to see the broker and told them it was a scam and they ignored me. So basically they were trying to scam the government and got scammed instead. I actually tried to pry the pen away from my father hands when I got desperate as he was writing down his bank info and SSN and he screamed at me I was embarrassing him and did it anyway,” she continued.
Due to their bad credit, the OP’s parents can barely afford an…
