Wasn't there a list of romance scammers out there?

[yonder]

8. Yeah, who knows how they insert themselves into other peoples lives?

I'm thinking they could easily identify targets (your SIL, my mom) by any 3rd party association (friend of a friend, etc.) and then work to ID an address. After that they could just give that address as their own whenever asked: doctors office, big box stores, Joe's Tackle Shop, etc. Eventually their name gets tagged to that address and Presto!, fraud in progress. I dunno?

In the case of my mom, she's too casual in her dealings with entities outside of family. She's also very religious and so that's a whole other can of worms. Looking through her bookcases, there's all kind of claptrap that she earnestly sent her special faith dollars to special faith partners for charlatan bullshit in order to gain special faith standing when she eventually arrives at those gates. (The cynicism is all mine).

This shit just makes me sick though. Preying on vulnerable people whether they're 8 or 80 or in between — there's got to be a special place for them in the end.

Good luck with your SIL.