My friend just got scammed her entire life’s savings on a down payment. It’s a $1M house and she was putting down 50% down for a more affordable mortgage. A couple days before closing she got a scam email providing wiring instructions, her attorney, agents, title office were all on the email thread but nobody pointed out it was from a scammer until a day later when she had already wired the money.
She has contacted her bank to try to recall the wire, tried contacting the receiving bank, filed police report and FBI case. Is there anything else she can try to do to recover the money? I feel really sorry for her because she is frugal and spends decades saving this money and is not good at investing.
A lesson learned to be more careful when wiring a large amount of money out (pls be nice), but at this point is there anything else she could do? The money was wired on Wed. She found out about the fraud and notified her bank (BOA) on Friday. I’m guessing the money is already out by then.
She tried contacting the receiving bank (US bank) and they said she had to contact her own bank because “US bank can’t freeze a customer account just because a non-customer reports fraud on an account number”…
I told her to visit BOA local branch and FBI local branch in person tomorrow.
Anything else worth trying?
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