Thieves emptied the bank account of America's oldest living veteran
Source: CNN
(CNN)Someone has stolen the identity of the oldest living veteran in America and emptied his bank account.
The family of 112-year-old Richard Overton said they don't know how a thief got Overton's social security and personal checking account numbers.
"It's a shock, it hurts, it hurts tremendously," Overton Jr. said.
His family would not discuss the amount of money that was taken but said it was a "considerable amount."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/30/us/oldest-living-veteran-theft-trnd/index.html
I hope they catch the fucker or fuckers who did it, and I hope they nail them to the wall with every possible charge. Stealing from anyone is low. Stealing from an elderly person is lower still. Elder abuse makes me furious. These folks are some of the most vulnerable in our society, and some sick assholes see them only as a payday.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Someone will set one up I'm sure.
Semper Fi Mr. Overton!
Jedi Guy
(3,175 posts)They set up a GoFundMe some years ago to help with the costs of his medical care. According to the article, it generated $330k, which was (thankfully) kept in a separate account and is safe.
Bengus81
(6,927 posts)They have all the bank info at their disposal.
paleotn
(17,876 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,519 posts)appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)This happened to a relative of mine living in NYC in the late 1980s. He deposited funds left to him from an aunt's life ins. policy into his acct. with a major bank. Almost all of the money soon disappeared, and it was an inside job.
My relative kept pushing the manager who insisted that it was a client withdrawal. Finally, the bank showed him a copy of a fake drivers license that was (supposedly) used for ID. It was so bad there was no way to dispute it. But the inside crew tried their best to hang onto the 25K as long as they could.
dembotoz
(16,784 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Surely someone else was in charge of that account. Let's face it...someone that old needs some watching over; even healthy octogenarians don't have brains as sharp as they used to be.
Security needs to be very tight. (Making mental note to change my passwords this weekend.)
I hope they're able to catch them and recover some of the money.