From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:15:16 +0100, "Carlos   
   E.R."  wrote:   
      
   >On 2026-01-25 07:19, micky wrote:   
   >> How to stop friend from being scammed.   
   >>   
   >> I hope you can help me.  My friend, the son of friends, is 38 and I've   
   >> known him since he was 2.  He's been giving money to scammers who found   
   >> him on Facebook.  He won't believe they are lying to him about the   
   >> Pakistani orphans.   
   >>   
   >> Right now he's in a locked mental ward at a local hospital.  For the 3rd   
   >> or more time over 10 years, and told me to get his laptop and use   
   >> whatsapp for the PC to continue relations with his friends (that is, the   
   >> lying scammers). When he gets out, he will try to send them hundreds of   
   >> dollars from his Social Security Disability.   
   >>   
   >> However this goes, it may well end up ruining my 35 year friendship with   
   >> him, even if I do no more than argue with him, but I want to do more and   
   >> also minimize the risk to our relationship.  (I have his parents' avid   
   >> encouragement.)   
   >>   
   >> I welcome suggestions and I'm asking if my plan is reasonable:   
   >   
   >How about telling the authorities at the ward?   
      
   He was committed involutarily about 10 days earlier, but I guess since   
   he's not violent, a threat to himself or others, after they decided   
   that, they had to let him change to a voluntary committment, which he   
   did** and then he had to say he wants out, and then they have to let him   
   out after 72 hours.   
      
   **His parents thought the ward was delaying giving him the form to   
   change to voluntary.  Maybe wo.  I knew a girl 45 years ago in Brooklyn,   
   NY, a nice girl who committed herself, I don't know why, and then wanted   
   out.  I went to visit her once in the locked ward, and maybe we talked   
   on the phone, and I told her "You're volutary.  Just say you want out"   
   and she said, 'I've done that more than once, but each time they use the   
   72 hours to talk me out of it, and they succeed.'   But after a while   
   she did get out.   
      
   BTW, while she was in, her mother died, and because she was in the   
   city's care, NYCity provided for free an attendant to go with her to the   
   funeral and burial in New Jersey, which probably took 90 minutes each   
   way plus an hour or two for the funeral etc.  Easily 5 hours.  NY also   
   had then, 45 years ago, and I'm sure still has free paychiatric   
   counselingtherapy for 2 or 3 sessions for everyone, in a hospital not   
   too far from one's home.  That is there are quite a few locations spread   
   out over the 5 boroughs.  Because the citizens and the government of NYC   
   care about the welfare of its citizans.  I don't know what is avaiiable   
   in other cities in the US, including my own.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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