At age 81, Albert Poland Jr. had the dreams of making his family millions. He had been receiving phone calls from a Jamaican Lottery to send money over so he could win $2 million. The loving father of two and husband suffered from Alzheimer's and was not in the right state of mind, made him vulnerable to the evil minded. Mr. Poland received numerous calls a day sometimes up to 50 directing to him to send money and saying that he was late in paying his taxes. Being that he is mentally ill/disabled he was do as he was told. His family took actions and tried to have the area code number 876 blocked by the police but such actions failed. Albert had sent over 5,00 0 dollars to the false lottery scam. With the repetition of calls it pushed Albert Poland to commit suicide leaving behind his beloved family.
My opinion: I think this is a terrible tragedy and the police should have had the area code blocked. Other actions that could have been put in place was Mr. Poland's access to the bank accounts and other places for him to receive money.
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Questions:
What other actions could the family have done to help prevent such actions to have taken place?
How do you think the government should treat such acts that have happen to several other victims?
Replies
Great job Jacob!!
THat is horrible te polce need to do something because of this
This is awful. Something should definitely be done to the people that did this to him. Like having them send his family $2 million. It's not going to bring him back, but at least it's something.
A man living alone with that disease its miraculous. If someone in my family had that I would make sure that they had someone to take care of them. I don't think that it would have happened if someone had been with him. I think the government should be more concerned on how to get rid of scammers.
It amazes me that this man is living alone with Alzheimer's. If he would be living with a family member or have a caretaker, i don't think this would have happened. I think the government should keep looking into different ways to stop these scammers.
He isn't living alone he has a wife and kids but whenever they tried to intervene, he would disregard their help.
I think the family could have tried a little more to stop him from sending the money to the fake lottery people. But the police should have had the number blocked for starters. The government should try to track these false companies down to there source. I assume several people have fallin for these phone calls and they should be stopped.
I think that his family could have been more attentive to his condition. You would think that they would be check on him constantly and would answer one of the phone calls for him. If they would've known then it could've prevented the suicide.
I think he family could have also paid more attention to his health. They should have denied his access to the money and phone calls.
I can't believe that there are sick people out there that will take advantage of others just for their money. It's disgusting. I think some government organizations need to get involved and shut down these telemarketers or at least not give them access to US telephones.
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