Senior trapped in Facebook scam, says daughter

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An elderly woman in Flin Flon, Man., has fallen victim to scammers who use Facebook and phone calls to extract money from her, according to the woman's worried daughter. Hellain Haws said her 69-year-old mother, who has mild dementia and lives on a fixed income, has been tracked down via her Facebook Louis Vuitton Outlet page by a man who tells her he loves her and asks her to send money. Haws said her mother has sent at least 1,000 to an address in Nigeria and now does not have enough money left to cover her own expenses. "We know for sure that she's handed off a thousand dollars, and that was at the beginning of December," Haws told Louis Vuitton M40597 CBC News on Tuesday. "She's on a limited income, and her income doesn't accommodate for that type of money."'No, he loves me'Haws said she and other family members have warned her mother that the man is just after her money. "She will just look and [say], 'No, he loves me … he's not like that'…," Haws said. "It sickens me because these people are obviously not caring about the life of the person that they're stealing from," she Louis Vuitton M40143 added. "My mother needs money for medication, money for food, she needs money for rent. And she doesn't have any of those things." Flin Flon RCMP are investigating the alleged Facebook scam, which they say is a first for them.