This is a truely horrible story but ... when pill people learn?

[wannaBe1974]

An elderly woman in bath was robbbed of her life savings when a man posing as someone from the water board conned his way into her house and made off with a suitcase containing her life savings ... ... ... £50000!!!!

Her family had no idea that she had that much money in the house.

You've gotta feel for her but seriously when will these people learn not to keep that kind of cash in the house?

That's horrible. I live in Bath, in an area densly populated by elderly people. This sort of thing, unfortunately, is commonplace around here Elderly people are vulnerable and are easy targets because they come from a generation where people were more trusting. They are also mistrusting of banks. My grandpa had several grand in £50 notes under the floorboards, which we didn't find until after he died. He never had a bank account, and wouldn't hear of opening one. This just makes them such easy targets for scum like this. It makes my blood boil. I hope when (if) they catch him they punish him accordingly

my parents look after an elderly lady. she doesnt like banks but my parents managed to get her a PO account.

But don't you also think its sad that her family didn't know her well enough to know she was doing it?

I think it's really sad. All but one of my gandparents are sadly no longer with us, but the thought of any of them having noone around them is heartbreaking. If this had happened to my Nan (who lives in a shite part of Birmingham, but who has my uncle and his family living with her) I'd want to break some limbs.

I don't think that you can undersetimate how stuborn some elderly people can be when it comens to money. My mother had a viciuos row with me over this issue. In the end my db managed to get her to put her money into a post office account that gave her a good return on her money.

My mother was utterly convinced that he had stolen her money, and would spend hours on the phone to me heaping the most awful abuse onto him.

You don't always know the background to these cases, and you don't know how contrairy and cunning the person could have been. When my mum was finaly admited to a Psychiatric unit we still found money hidden all over the house, in spite of our best efforts to stop her.

its very sad that they dont know. the lady my parents look after doesnt have any family. my mum was getting her benefits out for her, and then the lady was hiding it around her flat. she was robbed a couple of years ago, so my mum finally got her to agree to a PO account. i think she is upto her limit with regards to benefits and savings (she doesnt spend much), so think shhe may be back to stashing it