That is the saddest thing I have ever heard. Scamming elderly people out of their money is disgusting. I actually know a girl on another forum that was sent a check for $6,000, and instructed to put it in her checking account, keep $4,000 for her percentage, and send the rest in a money order to some other company. She did take it to the bank, but she didn't cash it, her bank put a hold on it to see if it was legit, and sure enough it was not. The check was a copy of a bank check from somewhere in West United States, and apparently the account had been closed for some time. Thank goodness she had the wits about her to spot it as a scam, otherwise she would have ended up having to pay her bank $6,000.