I learned about this situation a couple days ago and it's been driving me insane since I heard about it, and I'm desperate for help at this point. I love my mother and if I can't prevent this from happening then I'll live with the guilt for the rest of my life. So I guess I'll begin from my perspective. A few days ago my mom told me that she had something to show me, and she was very excited about it. She pulls out her phone and opens this investment app that I have never seen before. She explains to me that she has been doing investing in the Taiwanese stock market and has been making significant returns since she began, a little over a month ago. She continues to explain that she doesn't even have to make the trades directly, just put her funds into the app's "AI Trader" and it makes profitable trades for her. People who use this feature also gain entries into a "lottery" that occasionally grants them bonuses. She says that she isn't supposed to tell anyone about this but the reason she's showing me is because she won the "grand prize" in the lottery and needs my financial assistance to essentially claim her prize. Naturally I am extremely confused, as this process is completely different than any trading platform I've ever used or heard about. Stock bonuses are typically granted through regular use of the account, and are pretty much just given to you once you meet the requirements. So I ask her to explain exactly what she needs my money for and how it will help her claim her prize. She says that she doesn't exactly understand it herself but her friend that introduced her to this app knows how it works, and that she has basically just been following her instructions to make money. She shows me the message her "friend" sent her about the prize and I run it through Google Translate (this is all in Chinese), and her friend basically says that she won 30 shares of some Taiwanese stock at a price below market, and in order to claim her profits all she has to do is deposit enough money to purchase all 30 shares at the discounted price then sell them at market price to earn the difference. I'm not an expert in investing or the stock market, but I do know enough that this is just not how these things work. This is where I make my suspicions clear to my mom, telling her that this is very abnormal and I need more information about everything (this app, who runs it, who her "friend" is, how she got into this, why it works like this, etc) before I give her any money. My mom says that she doesn't really know and that she'll ask her "friend". While she's doing that I quickly do some of my own investigation. This app is called "T•B PRO" on the Google Play store, published by IBM Plus. 0 reviews, 10+ downloads. Not very promising. I turn on my computer and look at some archives of the Play Store and discover that this app has been relaunched at least 3 different times, 2 of which have been removed as of January of this year. Each release has a different de