[00:00:00] This is Scams & Cons News with Jim Brinstad.
[00:00:10] In today's news, a woman who had just lost her husband is targeted by Scammers who impersonated
[00:00:16] a funeral home employee by asking the woman to pay funeral expenses by credit card.
[00:00:21] And banks are blaming their customers for not doing a better job of protecting their
[00:00:25] own accounts from Scammers. model of your car and what year it was made. They may even be able to tell you when and where you bought it. They then ask for personal information to sneak into your bank account or get a credit card number. As for the specific information, most of it is public data, so the scammers need only to buy a list that includes the information and turn the auto dialer's loose. If you want to
[00:01:43] extend your car's warranty, call your auto dealer There's 40,000. It's in there. It's not mine. He needs it back. Margaret says the person over the phone instructed her to wire the $40,000 back to him and fast so he wouldn't get fired.
[00:03:02] Margaret says she went to her bank chance to get into the trial. She did, but when they asked for a bank account information
[00:04:20] to pay for processing costs, she balked. Experts on social media. Jennifer exactly what happened in h last time and said, we w
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[00:05:48] where's my husband's body last financial year, only 21 million was reimbursed. The commission said the bank should be held more accountable for customer losses. But the problem isn't just in Australia. American banks haven't been friends to their customers either, as CBS News explains. Deborah Moss has spent more than a decade running
[00:07:00] her small catering business.
[00:07:02] In 2021, she says she'd finally saved enough money
[00:07:05] to slow down and move to says the next day, Ms. Barbara called saying FedEx was having trouble locating her home. Something Moss says wasn't surprising to her since she'd just moved over the next week. Ms. Barbara called several times Moss says each time saying
[00:08:24] there was a problem with delivery of the card and each time asking Moss to verify her identity among other things, wire transfers. But in this case, the scammers tricked Moss into giving them those numbers, allowing them to evade security and wire thousands of dollars from Moss's account to their own. Six wire transfers in amounts as high as almost $48,000 in a single week. I didn't even know what a wire transfer was.
[00:09:40] I've never done a wire transfer in my whole life.
[00:09:43] Chase told Moss to file a police report,
[00:09:45] then a claim with the bank, which she did.