An elderly woman from Raleigh, North Carolina, fell prey to a scam that cost her $75,000.
Bethlyn Smith’s ordeal began after she noticed two unusual transactions in her bank account. Reports ABC11.
Smith called what she thought was customer support, but it turned out she had contacted a scammer who told her her accounts were being targeted.
She says the person on the phone told her she had two intruders, one from Ohio and one from the Dakotas.
The scammer warned that the hackers were very good and that they needed to verify her accounts to make sure bad actors didn’t access them. Smith was then asked to download an app that would give her caller remote access to her accounts.
Smith says the scammer then asked her to transfer the money or else the hacker would have access to her account. She was also instructed on what to say to your bank when you send money.
“They asked me to say that this was a loan to that person, and that he would return my money… So, stupidly, I told them that I knew that person, which I didn’t.”
One of Smith’s accounts transferred $25,000, records show. The scammer also asked her to transfer more money from her other account. Smith says she sent an additional $50,000.
After suspecting something was wrong, Smith contacted her banks in an attempt to stop the transactions but it was already too late.
She says both banks told her she could no longer get the money back.
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