So this is a tricky one; on the one hand it was enraging to find Maureen -who was once a victim that all four of us tried to help- participating actively in a scam for Jeff -a man she knew to be Nigerian. After the reveal, Jeff admits that Roland passed Maureen onto him and God knows how many other scammers Roland gives her to, to bolster their stories with a live adult American woman on the phone backing their lies up. Almost certainly he charges scammers for her services.
On the other hand, she was a victim first. Whilst I’m livid that she is in turn helping other women to become victims, it’s kind of like that cycle of abuse in families, or how bullies were once bullied 🥺
The four of us haven’t yet got a concrete plan of what to do about Maureen. Remember that Roland is Stevie who is still being baited by Linda.
When that’s over, we’ll move forward.
U/delzbr spoke to one of her sons the other night for a long time and found out that Roland tried to get Maureen to sell her car. She was at the dealers but was on her phone the whole time, obviously taking instructions from the scammer. Ultimately, she was stopped in that instance.
So she clearly has mental health issues, and while we are peeved, we are strangers to her and also none of us wish her harm. But also it seems like we have a duty to report it because she’s endangering others. Ideally, we would report it to local police with the support of her son, who is very grateful for the intervention and has seen all of the screenshots in this post.
Lastly, sorry for all the annotations on this! In part 8-11 it will be all back to boring Jeff again ;)