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The original was posted on /r/scams by /u/shimmeringcolors on 2025-06-14 03:44:06+00:00.

Hi everyone, I’m unsure how to start, as this has been very overwhelming for me and I have no clue how to gather my thoughts.

Last month I found out my mom was getting scammed. She’s been spending roughly 60-80 dollars a day (sometimes even more) on a romance scam website since atleast Aug. 2024. This website is almost completely AI and filled with bots. No real heart to heart conversations.

I told her what was going on and that she needed to get off these websites. She had agreed and gave me the passwords to her accounts so that I could deactivate them for her. I sat in a “Queue” which then I was met with a “Customer support agent”. They then told me I’d have to wait until my “Account manager” was online to ask about a deactivation. I knew straight away that none of that was going to work. I was able to see past interactions in the chat for account deactivation. Everytime in the past she had tried to deactivate, they’d give her “100 free credits” to reel her back in. Luckily, I was able to lock her out of her accounts. She had different accounts on multiple websites. There are 2 other websites(that I know of) basically copy and pasted and put up under different website names.

She made the decision to get signed up for the same one again. I had locked her out of that one too, once I knew.

She’s really convinced she’s talking to real people. That these younger men REALLY do love her and want to marry her. Bring her to Peru and all these lovely…empty promises.

It’s gotten to the point where if I lock her out of an account she’ll make a new one in a couple hours.

She will not listen to me, either that or doesn’t believe me. She has said things like “I know, and I’m done with it now.” Then go on and spend more money on the site.

I’m genuinely starting to worry that she will not be able to pay for rent or other needed things. In the past she said she had been struggling so I helped her out by paying a couple of her bills but now that I know all this I cannot continue to do this.

I’m wondering is there any real way I can report these scams and get them taken down? I’m starting to feel helpless. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.