A woman took a mentally incapacitated man to a Singapore bank and cleaned out his account to the tune of $800,000 because employees were not aware that he was being taken advantage of.
Cases like this serve as a cautionary tale that the financial abuse of vulnerable people is often very hard to detect, especially when the culprits are relatives or those close to the victims.
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