A netizen shared how her brother took a loan from their elderly mother, promising to return her the money but later ran away with the money, which is her mother’s life savings.

Here is what she said

My brother took a loan of about $20k from my mother, and although to some people it isn’t much, it is her entire life savings.

He came to her saying that he ran into some troubles in Thailand and needed help urgently, and when my mother asked him what troubles was he facing, he just told her that it was complicated and that even if he explained, she wouldn’t understand.

My mother loved and trusted him, as all mothers do, and readily gave him all the money that she had saved up over the years, her life savings, AS A LOAN.

Do you know what the definition of a loan is? A loan is “a thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.”

He then took the money and told her that he was grateful to her for her help, and that he will return her the money once he settled his problems in Thailand.

Half a year passed and we haven’t heard anything from him, we can’t reach him via messages, calls or social media because he has blocked all of us.

I don’t even care about the loan amount that he scammed his own mother, I can reimburse our mum but it’s the way he used and lied to her for his own monetary gain.

Really feel sorry for my mother for giving birth to such a useless son.