THIS ARTICLE IS A REPRINT FROM CHANNEL 9 NEWS-----READ AND HEED!
Dorothy and Bobby Ivy said they lost nearly everything, and it started with a phone call from a woman claiming to be with their bank, Wells Fargo.
Police said the woman making the calls is working with a man, who was later caught on camera withdrawing money from an ATM at a Regions Bank in July.
Investigators said the man withdrew money from a 91-year-old woman's account. She had also been scammed.
The Ivys and the other victim said the woman claiming to be from their banks told them they'd be getting new debit cards.
"They were making the cards bigger and having bigger letters on the cards, and they needed our card back," said Dorothy Ivy.
Dorothy, 71, said the scammers used enough personal information to trick them.
She and her husband were told to give their cards to a bank representative who stopped by their house.
Her husband said he had a bad feeling. He thought the man looked too young to be in management
"I had a big red flag go up," Bobby Ivy said.
"I had a big red flag go up," Bobby Ivy said.
When they went to Wells Fargo to ask questions, they found out they had been scammed.
"They had almost cleaned me out," said Bobby Ivy.
The Ivy's said the bank replaced their money. Now they want to warn other seniors.
"We've got to tell what we can to try and keep somebody else out of that racket," Bobby Ivy said. "That's going to help a heap of people."
Channel 9 contacted both banks that said they want to remind customers that banks will never request a debit card be returned.
They said those receiving calls like the families in this story should first contact police and then their bank
"We've got to tell what we can to try and keep somebody else out of that racket," Bobby Ivy said. "That's going to help a heap of people."
Channel 9 contacted both banks that said they want to remind customers that banks will never request a debit card be returned.
They said those receiving calls like the families in this story should first contact police and then their bank
5 comments:
I saw that report this morning. Just amazing how people take advantage of others.
Why doesn't Hometown protect us from this?
This is not a hometown issue, unless you want to extrapolate that, should someone here fall for such a call, a gate guard might initially prevent a non-resident con man from entering the park. But nothing could stop the con man from making an online tee time as a way of entering.
Contrary to popular belief hts is nit responsible for your phone calls or the appointments you make over the phone. If you think it sounds fishey, hang up.
Recently we read a article in the Sentinel about some tree trimmers taking a fairly large amount of money from elderly people and did not deliver on their promises therefore were accused of a scam against the elderly. When we came in here we were shown a library and a menu with a selection of many meals including breakfast. We bought with all this in mind now they no longer exist!!!! Were we as elderly also SCAMMED as we pay for for something not delivered? Why were the sales people not arrested and hta not fined for this scam? Or was this not a scam but just a old fashion bait and switch? Sure seems as though what happened to us was a scam as we continue to pay with our very high lot rent for something shown and promised and not delivered !!!!!!!!!!
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