Ohio
Related: About this forumwoman transferred $6K of her money via instructions from fraudster, also got naked and spun in circles on facetime
The male caller--who spoke with an accent--told the woman that there was a potential fraudulent charge pending on her account. To safeguard her money, the purported bank employee said, she would have to move her funds into a different account to avoid her money being stolen.
With the scam artist still on the phone, the woman went to a local Huntington Bank branch (seen above) and withdrew $6000. She then was directed to a nearby Chase Bank ATM, where she deposited the cash onto a Chase debit card via her iPhones Apple Pay feature.
After having spent two hours on the phone with the man, the woman--whose name was redacted from the police report--returned home and got another call from the fraudster, who wanted to FaceTime with her. The man, who did not have his camera on, asked the woman to provide them with a full body scan to verify her identity due to a failed transaction.
The woman told cops that she undressed and spun in circles on FaceTime to confirm her identity. When the voice on the other end began to laugh, the woman realized that she had been scammed. And humiliated, to boot.
While police have subpoenaed various bank records, the likelihood of identifying the perp--probably working from a call center in India--are remote.
https://thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/cruel-ohio-scam-729630
GPV
(73,036 posts)Ocelot II
(120,858 posts)but I guess enough are to make it worth the scammers' time to keep trying until they get one.
Delphinus
(12,145 posts)I feel for her big time.
leftieNanner
(15,698 posts)But go see the movie Thelma. She goes after the scammers. Excellent.
brush
(57,517 posts)anciano
(1,532 posts)I have some reservations about the veracity and credibility of this reported event. Just saying...
33taw
(2,810 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(10,198 posts)they don't just ask if I made the transaction, they question what it pertains to. It was annoying the first time, but I figured they thought i was being scammed unless they understood the transaction.