I did post here a year ago how my mum become victim of fraud perpetrated by her favourite bank employee. It all looked really strange; the employee apparently stole such a large sum of money from several people that she could have lived in a mansion but she lived in a flat. She had a husband and a young son – what woman would want her child to have mum in prison??? She was apparently not only fabricating documents, what she did to my mum, but also meeting with clients outside of bank to accept money! And I was thinking, who would be so naive to agree on passing money this way? My mum would never do that.

During summer I was informed the police passed the case to court and I am aware courts in Poland are overloaded – it may take even a few years to start a proceeding. Yet, three weeks later we had a date of a hearing.

I didn’t attend. The court offered me an online meeting later on when I was in the hospital and I rejected. I told them due to my mental health I can’t participate any more. The police has all the details already, don’t they?

My mum could never decide what she wanted to do with her money. I think, ideally, she would want me to be in charge of it, but give my brother monthly income, so that he didn’t spend it on alcohol all at once. But I didn’t want such responsibility. I have my own problems. When my mum had the accident that made her unable to walk she gave me access to all the money that didn’t get stolen and I transferred it to my bank account to be able to cover her care home fees. My brother can get the money that was stolen, that will be his half. He liked stolen money, he was frequently stealing from mum and sometimes from me. If he got larger sum of money everything would go for alcohol, drugs and prostitutes for him and his mates.

But am I specifically at risk of fraud now? I sometimes share on a blog how much I paid for things; mostly because I find the number funny in some way. Like 6.76. Or possibly something is unusually cheap. I mostly pay by card. I shared on the blog who I bank with. I went to my bank to ask about it and I was reassured fraud is not so easy to commit.