Hello. I am hoping someone can help me or give me advice for an ongoing situation with my mother (67). To start, my mother is all there, so I don't think there are cognitive issues and her GP has checked her and given her the all clear. However, she is on antidepressants and does suffer from depression and anxiety. 

On and off for the last 3 or so years, my mom believes she is not only talking with but in some sort of relationship with David Muir from ABC News. This started on Facebook via a clearly fake profile and at times has escalated to this person sending her flowers and recently I saw that she is now talking to him on Telegram, which in my POV is a pretty sketchy place to be. Even complicating this more is that my husband is an actual employee at ABC News. The latest message I caught was her telling him that she loves him and will see him that night when he is on the air. 

Despite my husband working there and despite us consistently telling her this man is not real, it continues. It is like a whack a mole. We will press her on this, and she will eventually say she knows she is being gullible and that he isn't real, but I am paranoid and think this guy is probably coaching her on what to say to get us to back off. Of course during this time, my mother has had multiple (like 1X a month at one point) breaches to her account where every cent was drained. At one point, attempts to drain her account were coming from either Paypal or Zelle and it was tied to a random address in Indiana. Obviously, I don't know if they're connected but it wouldn't surprise me. 

Recently, she is worried about money (obviously, because her account is always drained and she is wildly writing checks) and I think she was telling "David" this and in the same day, in the same app (Telegram) she got hit up by a "recruiter" for a remote job that was clearly fake. I am truly at a loss of what to do. She is now begging me to give her money for food and I have told her I will not unless she 1) gives me power of attorney to manage her finances and 2) visit a counseling center. She is resistant to both of those, but after all these years I am standing firm to hopefully force her hand. I've sent her addresses to local food pantries in the meantime. 

I cannot get her better until I nip this David person in the butt and get rid of him once and for all. Right when it started, I messaged him and told him to stop and he was very aggressive and told me to watch my back. This is a scam of all scam and I truly believe this man has built a network of people to scam my mother. HELP!