Yes, that didn't seem logical for me but later I found an explanation about that, which makes real sense. What should be the aim of prison, to punish the person and destroy mentally, make him even worse or to change the vision of the person and make him a better one? Norway chooses to improve the person instead of punishing. I was reading on Norwegian subreddit that people who commit crime and end up in Norway's prisons, when they come out, most of them start job or business and money that was spent on these prisoners, finally gets returned back by these people working real jobs, starting businesses and paying taxes back. So, it makes sense but it only makes in a country where the overall image of people's mentality is good. Such an attitude won't make sense in 3rd world countries (sorry about that everyone but that's true).
If you open such a prison in El Salvador for example, everyone will try to commit crime to live in such conditions.

EU countries are very stupid. They allow migration of people who have zero skills, zero knowledge and are violent, murderers. In Europe, if you work and pay taxes, you are simply stupid (government thinks so, not me) because the government will feed those lazy people with taxes that you pay. Basically, working class works hard every day and lazy, violent class gets all the benefits and free time.

It's crazy because the amount taken is also very large for an individual and they are guiltlessly perpetrating this kind of scam on elderly people who should already be very comfortable with their retirement life.

But on the other hand it tells us a lot because at the end of the day there are still a lot of old people who have positive thoughts that are misused by some irresponsible people to gain dishonorable benefits by stealing using the technology they have. So in this case it should be a concern that we should not trust anyone too much and as much as possible we keep the closest people, especially our parents who always have a positive view of anyone because fraudsters like this do not know age or gender, when they act and try to drain their victims whoever it is, they will definitely do it without mercy.

It is sad, a lot for this criminals let money get in the way of their values and morals..I'd rather be a poor man with integrity. I do think the Government's have to invest money into cyber security training for the elderly. It's a shame for this lady.

If this approach gives results, then I guess it makes sense - although I'm not one of those who think that prisoners should have conditions like in the Middle Ages, but they should still feel like they're in a prison, not a hotel. However, I understand that the mentality of the Scandinavians is quite different from the rest of Europe because they do a lot of things differently than the rest.

I don't know if this is some kind of custom in all northern countries, but I have seen that small children are left outside in cold weather, probably to strengthen their immunity - if someone did this in another country, the police and social services would probably get involved.


Unfortunately, this is a consequence of the disastrous demographic policy of almost the entire Western EU - they would not be able to function without foreign labor that does hard and dirty work - despite the fact that millions of people from the eastern member states have moved to the west. France, Germany and Sweden are already paying high prices for such policies, and some other countries are on the right track to experience the same.

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@Helena Yu, one person cannot change anything on his own, but the change has to start from somewhere - I try to buy products that have fair trade labels and are not the result of destroying the environment - although I am also aware that such labels are very easily bought and misused.

It is a sad story, but seriously, how stupid can you be? Its usually a combination of greed and stupidity which enables the scammers to do their thing with people like this.

Having said that, yes scammers are nasty scum pieces of shit.

This old woman is quite too old for that stress, there are lots of friendly investments she could have gone for which suits her mental capacity. Whoever advised this old woman to invest in bitcoin should have at least educated her on the security risks involved in investing in Bitcoin, at least she would have known better not to disclose sensitive information online. This can happen to anyone who doesn't really know much about scam tactics. Anyone who lacks basic understanding of how scammers steal from online investors will literally be putting his bitcoins online for scammers to take.

It is better if these elderly ones are given properly security education before they even invest. Most of them may not even be mentally active for any form of investment which may lead to them losing all they laboured for to scammers.

I don't see anything in this story other than a combination of complete ignorance and greed, because it's a nice sum of money that could be used to live comfortably as an additional source of income in addition to a pension - and if you really want to invest in something, then there are government bonds and the like where the risk is negligible, but the earnings are also very modest.

Another thing is very strange to me, and that is that this woman did not seek advice from anyone before she did this stupid thing - if she had only asked her children, neighbors or a friend for advice, something like this probably would not have happened to her.

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@Synchronice, I often wonder if any of those EU bureaucrats have any brains in their heads considering the crazy decisions they make - instead of encouraging young families to have more children, they advocate breaking the foundation of human society, which is the family.

When you look at the fact that we have reached a situation where it is no longer normal to have more than 1-2 children and that the career comes before the family - then it is not surprising that the EU Commissioner for Demography says that the problems of demography will be solved literally by importing labor from some and more than the obvious incompatible countries.

A sad story indeed, specialy for the amount of the financial damage.

Victims of all kind of scams usually feel so ashamed they simply don't talk about ir to family, friends or even the authorities - some crimes are not reported, don't go to the records and (also simply) go unpunished, encouraging the scammers.

We must take care and pay attention to our elderlies, always informing them about new kind of scams and make them aware the scammer will explore the victims vulnerability (lack of understanding) and any trait of greed they may have.