Woman Says Her Sister Tried To Steal From the Trust Fund Meant To Keep Her Alive — and Even Faked Rehab Paperwork To Do It
In a Reddit post, a 38-year-old woman said her younger sister tried to steal tens of thousands of pounds from the trust fund that had been set up to protect her after a traumatic childhood. According to the post, the trust was created by her adoptive father after she struggled with serious trauma and the beginnings of a drug problem as a child. She wrote that the fund had been there for decades to cover things like therapy, rehab, housing, and other support meant to keep her stable and alive. It was never family money. It was never shared money. It was specifically built for her care.
She said the first sign something was wrong came when the solicitors managing the trust called to wish her luck and offer their sympathy about an upcoming rehab stay in the United States. In the post, she wrote that she had no idea what they were talking about. That was when they explained that someone had contacted them pretending to be from a rehab facility, submitted paperwork for a three-month stay, and requested that the money be sent to a bank account in the U.S. The woman said she was immediately furious. Not only had her sister tried to access money that was not hers, she had done it by impersonating a treatment center and inventing a rehab stay in her name.
According to the post, the amount involved was not small. She described it as tens of thousands of pounds and said her sister’s motive was painfully obvious: she wanted money to help buy a house and had apparently decided the trust fund was fair game because she believed the woman “ruined her childhood.” The poster said that accusation made the theft attempt even more infuriating. From her point of view, her sister had grown up in a stable home with both parents, paid-for university, holidays, and a normal life. Meanwhile, the trust existed because the poster’s early life had gone so badly wrong that someone had to set up long-term protection to keep her afloat.
She wrote that what stung almost as much as the attempted fraud was how calculated it felt. In the post, she said her sister could not even bring herself to ask for help directly. Instead, she apparently chose the one route that hit the deepest nerve: pretending the woman was about to enter rehab and using the exact fund designed to cover that kind of emergency. She said it felt like such a low blow because the money was tied to the most painful parts of her life, and her sister had chosen to weaponize that.
At first, she was unsure whether to go to the police because she did not want to create even more family drama. She said she believed her parents would side with the sister and that, in some ways, the sister likely wanted the fight as much as the money. But after the story spread, she added an update explaining that the solicitors were required to report the fraud attempt themselves, so she did not actually have to drive the legal side alone. They also told her she should review the trust’s past transactions just in case anything else suspicious had happened over the years.
Ten months later, she came back with a final update, and it was grim in a different way. According to the post, the friend whose U.S. bank account had been listed on the fake paperwork was eventually cleared because police quickly determined they had no idea what was going on. But beyond that, nothing really happened. U.S. police would not pursue the case because no money had actually been transferred and there was no direct financial loss. U.K. police then closed their side too because the Americans were not moving forward. After months of meetings, paperwork, and one “minor mental breakdown,” the woman was told there would be no charges, no punishment, and no real consequence for her sister.
She said the one small comfort was that her sister did not get the money. The solicitors shut everything down more tightly afterward, restricted access so that only she and her husband could effectively reach the trust, and made sure future withdrawals would be much harder to fake. She also said she and her sister had not spoken and would not be speaking again. Her parents, whatever their exact stance, at least seemed to understand that the two sisters would never be in the same room again.
What started as a routine call from solicitors turned into the discovery that her own sister had tried to fake rehab paperwork, funnel money into a friend’s U.S. bank account, and raid the trust fund that existed because the woman’s life had once been so unstable it had to be financially protected for decades. Even after the fraud failed, the part that seemed hardest for her to accept was that her sister got caught trying to steal from the very safety net built out of her worst pain — and still walked away with no real consequences.
