"Bea" is 64 and on a fixed medical benefit and income. She started selling organic food off a website in Oregon, and was scraping by. She signed some desperate woman, "Elle" from Minnesota to the site, and it seems she's hit it pretty good with a Minnesota school district. Elle now has the governor of Minnesota trying to get all the MN school systems to go in. Bea gets 3% of the action.
Bea is now afraid she might go over her $800 income limit to keep receiving benefits and wants to start a corporation making me President to save her benefits. At first I said I would go in. Now Bea sends like six E-mails a day and is trying to get me to sell my state like OR and MN. I have other employment and kids and don't want to be that busy. Bea got snippy and said my parents didn't raise me right, saying if I wasn't going to do it with enthusiasm she wasn't going to give me a dowry. I was offended. Should I try to work this out, or is it too dangerous?
2007-05-06 19:00:36 · 20 answers · asked by Your Uncle Dodge! 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
She is insulting your adoptive parents and trying to emotionally blackmail you. What part of this scenario is hard to understand? Back out of this "business" immediately and tell her you won't have her acting like this toward your parents or you. She has no right to be disrespectful. She sounds a little mentally imbalanced with the way she reacts to things. At the very least, she is insensitive.
2007-05-06 19:15:21 · answer #1 · answered by Beckers 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
My first thought is - do you know if this woman really is your birth mother? If you posted online that you are looking to find your birth mother and listed an e-mail address, this may be someone preying on that interest to take advantage of you.
There are income limits from Social Security, but the problem is - why would anyone turn down a great income just to keep their Social Security? If you made $1200 a month on SSI, and you were going to make $2000, would you care that your additional income would be reduced? It will revert if your income drops I believe. I'd contact the SSI department where you live and see if you can't verify her story on benefits. And to my knowledge, no school in Oregon is selling organic items in the schools - or cooking with them. If they were, it wouldn't be through an online and unknown vendor. We have a lot of certified organic farms here (Oreganic
Good luck - you're welcome to e-mail me if I can be of more help with Oregon information.
2007-05-07 10:42:42 · answer #2 · answered by An Oregon Nut 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I would keep far away from this business. She is more than willing to scam the gov't in order to keep her benefits, so what will keep her from scamming you? Plus
you could be setting yourself up for being responsible for
any liabilities her "company" ends up with. Can you afford to
be laden with her debts? She is playing the guilt card with
you, and that is another warning sign. Trust your instincts,
don't get involved.
2007-05-07 02:08:42 · answer #3 · answered by Caiman94941 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Funny. She told me she had a bridge I could buy as well as some great land in Florida......All this time to get in touch with you for the right reasons and she does it now with a collection plate in tow......
2007-05-07 02:18:59 · answer #4 · answered by Lou Stewth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She gave you up when you were a baby. You're now just another human being to exploit for her own personal gain. Nawe, I'd leave that one alone like it had Anthrax on it.
2007-05-07 02:08:22 · answer #5 · answered by Pontius 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this woman abandoned you, why are you even talking to her? tell her to stuff it and cut off all ties, she is a con artist. and by the way you should have told her to f-off when she commented on how you were raised, if she wanted it done "right" why didn't she stick around and do it herself?
2007-05-07 02:04:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
no--its a scam! Go to the local PD in your area and report it! And how do you know she really is your birth mother? I would be very suspicious. Hope you work it out, hon!
2007-05-07 02:05:53 · answer #7 · answered by Maximan 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like she has been "taken in" by a cult minded organization....and it all sounds very fishy to me....if she's insulting you to make you feel guilty, then she won't stop there....Beware
2007-05-07 02:05:46 · answer #8 · answered by EvelynMine 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
it sounds fishy... she's forcing you because she wants to save her benefits. that's selfish and if i were you I'd pass.
but don't rely on my answer. asks some one else.... maybe a lawyer friend who would give you some advise on this.
2007-05-07 02:11:11 · answer #9 · answered by Piggy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a scam to me
2007-05-07 02:05:08 · answer #10 · answered by Cookie Monster 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋