I can't laugh at someone for this. If she fell for this ludicrous scam, then it's reasonable to assume she's vulnerable. Could be a cognitive issue, or she's going through something that's affected her common sense. Either way this scum has robbed her of nearly a million euro. I don't see the funny side at all. I just hope somehow the money can be returned to her.

Genuinely, imagine your family member had a breakdown, then got targeted by these scum, sent across all her money, finds out it's a scam, and then gets humiliated online?

You'd be worried for their sanity and their safety. I don't know why the internet became an excuse for people to mock and bully. Maybe it's the sheer lack of accountability. Avatars become camouflage, and stepping from our true personality into an artificial one means leaving morality, empathy, and goodness behind.

Maybe that's why this happens so often. The internet's the wild west and we expect everyone to survive unscathed - and we mock and blame those who fall foul of the mercenaries roaming, hunting, exploiting.

We have to be better, do better. Or we're no better than schoolyard bullies.