58-year-old woman sends $1.5M to scammers, gets angry when 20-year-old son prevents her from taking money out of her 401K to send the scammers $30K more

The young man in this story is trying to help his mom, but she is a non-starter. She has sent over a million dollars to scammers and is convinced that she will get her money back and then some. Now, she wants to borrow from her 401K, even though she's not 59.5 years old yet.
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Am I the bad guy for not allowing my Mom to withdraw from her 401k after she's been scammed for over $1,000,000?

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$house (small fraction of the total value). She won't be able to sell her house within 2 weeks so she wants to withdraw from her 401k. Since she is not 59 1/2, she cannot withdraw from her 401k.$

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