My first time posting to this sub and i’m at a loss. My mother (63 medical retirement due to MS) has been giving away all her and my Fathers (63 working two jobs because of her) money to a scammer. Last week she gave away at least $3,600 in gift cards to the same scammers who are her promising a grant for people who own and rent property. We have explained to her that it was a scam. In spite of this she is still taking out loans against her car (the only way she can get credit at this point) to pay these people in gift cards. My father had to pay over $6,000 to get her car out of impound the last time she defaulted on paying her loan against the car. We believe she has given more than $200,000 to these people in gift cards and bitcoin, nothing has been sent through USPS either direction. Everything has been transferred via email and text messages.
I’ve reached out for support from adult protective services and they told us there is nothing they can do but tell her they are scams and that she doesn’t meet their criteria anyway. We are at the point where the only thing we can think to do is get her declared incompetent. In order to stop her from throwing away money in the meantime we are planning on cutting off her email, change her phone numbers and wipe her phone to factory restart in an attempt to stop this until we can talk to a lawyer about getting her declared incompetent.
Is there any chance we could be in legal trouble for the steps we plan on taking? Is falling for a scam for 3 years with hard evidence for at least the last 3 months going to be enough to get her declared incompetent? Is this the right path to take? And last what kind of lawyer should we look for? We are in yolo county California and i’m happy an answer any questions that will better inform you. Thank you for any guidance you can provide.
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