'This is a complete nightmare'; Bank fraud drains local man's account of $60K
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2023
- A Washington man says scammers got him for nearly $60,000-and the bank knew about it and failed to stop it.
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Exactly! they are part of the problem.
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True. If their ATM accidentally spit out too much money to this man and had he refused to return it, they'd have the police at his door within 24 hours.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
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more and more these are starting to sound like inside jobs
You do wonder that what amounts to a robo call ends up targeting a person who has $60,000 + in his bank account. Did the source of the robo call actually have access to bank accounts, so they know who to target? That means bank security has been breached and a specific target was made by a supposedly random robo call.
It wouldn’t be surprising. Branch bank employees make crap base pay these days.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
@@StevenTorreyvery interesting 🧐
it's called an otp bot w a tlo lookup on target@@StevenTorrey
I'm tech savvy, and I've never heard of IC3. How are we (the general public) supposed top know about some obscure site like this? This seems like the responsibility of the bank.
It absolutely is the bank’s responsibility. You have a contract with the bank you lend them your hard earned money and in exchange they pay you paltry interest and more importantly the promise of them safeguarding it against would be thieves/hackers.
We live in an absurd system that is "fractal-y absurd" and what I mean by that is that at every step it is absurd and that absurdity is self similar. It is hard to find a place to start so I'll just start with the dollar. People in the US who have never left the country and or never used another currency just give the dollar a unit value of 1 but that hides the fact that it loses purchasing over time. This is called inflation and there are official stats a person could look up regarding the inflation rate but those official numbers are basically bullshit or rather a "half-truth". They do over complicated "creative accounting" based on some ethereal thing called the "consumer price index" or whatever nonsense when all a person really has to do is look at the change in rent over time relative to wages to get a "real inflation" metric, as in the inflation real people feel not some obscure hypothetical number no real person actually experiences. So now that we have this absurd currency system, let's go on to the absurd banking system. We trust people, without good reason, to take our store of wealth, pay us tiny interest rates, if any, and then loan it out to others. We have zero say in where these go or the types of borrower profiles, or really anything and we can't easily see how healthy the banking institution we're using is. Most people just kinda assume there is no risk with using a bank but that is far from the truth and there are many risks that make using most banks to store any significant amount of wealth risky(far more risk than the benefits would justify). Now there is the absurd legal system. There is a legal maxim that usually says something like "ignorance of the law is no excuse" but practically speaking that is bullshit and obviously so. Police, and other government officials, get "qualified immunity" but regular citizens, with exactly 0 legal training, are supposed to just know and obey, as if by magic or divine intuition, all laws in their city, county, state and at the federal level. Law in the US is written in English but it isn't the kind of English regular people speak. It takes professionals months, and maybe years, of formal training to be able to read and fully understand law but even then professionals get stuff wrong and argue about stuff all the time. It is basically like we live in an insane asylum where the patients somehow got left in charge
@@joshs9066 It's not his money! No one has $60000 and if he did he's a drug dealer I'm 16 and i even know this 🤦♂
@@swallowedinthesea11Shhh…the adults are talking.
@@ChicanoPhD um, i'm a teen. hello...
You would think an attempted $59,000 withdrawal would raise a red flag. The bank dropped the ball on this one.
Exactly. Very suspicious.
I 100% believe stuff like this occurs because it's internal fraud
That and incompetence.
Sometimes
Agree completely. There are so many inside jobs that the average person doesn’t know about
It is. Someone has access to the account information.
You are probably right!!
I won't be surprised if there's some people inside the bank that helped the scammers.
You know it is so, because the money have to be split up
When caught or if caught. They should be imprisoned for 25 years mandatory. This hurts so many people in so many levels.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl
@@Narnho459Is this the address of the thieves?
It’s the government who took it sadly
thats why you keep money on credit cards instead its insured.. debit cards are dangerous and people dont realize it
25 years? Death penalty or life sentence is the best option.
Banks should be held accountable for something like this. They make millions of dollars off of the clients that entrust them with their money, and should have security protocols in place that they themselves would trust to keep THEIR own money safe.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
* billions
wow.. this same happened too me
i reported online to
well i need fox 13 plz
This is exactly why I ignore unknown callers 🤷🏻♀️
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
Fr. If someone is trying to reach me they’ll either leave a voicemail, send an email or a letter to my address. If it’s someone I still don’t know, I’ll discard it either way
The people that called was actually the bank signaling fraud on his account.
@@johnnytran800they left a message I would think and he want to the bank
I only answer calls I am expecting.
I have the call logs to prove that. How long I was on the phone with them with the dates and also times.
People can call through random numbers using the internet.
One of my friends used to call me from random numbers when his phone was cut off and I asked him how then he told me.
He had also gone to ITT tech.
The bank is accountable for restoring the customer money.
Nah… that was someone at the bank trying to pull a fast one and get a quick money grab
Says who exactly? Certain types of transactions aren't covered by fraud protection.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
@@mattypantsthe whole account has fraud protection on it
you would think.. its been over 90ty days.. i still dont have any answer i call bank here in town i went too and nothing no one answers.. well because this fraud on my account . im out of 2000? and my car now because ive never been late to the point that I just didn't pay it i have 10 day grace.. well i have print outs from bank and the bank manager signed stamp it thst the money and things over turned would be put back . this was given emailed to my car finance which i had GM financial.. they never even called and said they was taking it. i wokeup and tues two weeks ago my car gone .. i call locate it.. and they tell me i need pay 2200$ get my car.. now mind u . when they took it i didnt how a payment yet. that total is the towing that came n took it.. and 2 car payments total 900.00 amd some change..Now subtract that from what they are saying i owe.
.so where 300$ tacked on come from. interested and late fees.. OMG ..I wasnt late. those payment were paid..april ,may payment were two got reversed.. because the fraud. im pisssed. like i loved my car.. and they just took it..nothing i did to deserve that..Now whos gonna fix that.. my car they held till tues. after holidays! . some smart ass calls Say:
So you getting your car, because its going to auto action.. I said since you snuck and took it you must wanted really bad.. so its your again..i paid 3 yrs on that car.. and i told them send me a bill saying i owe you anything.. loan ppl. because i kept that car CLEAN.. AND ILL ADD THAT TO MY COMPLAINT
The biggest banking frauds are committed internally by the people who walk through their doors and sit down to work. This has been well documented.
I think you're right. I had this happen with a brand new bank account I had opened about a month or two prior. Claiming a charge was on my debit card I had never used. Not enough time to get on the dark web and the bank didn't have a compromise. They like to do this on the weekends so you can't easily call your bank.
The reason is banks now hire on the employees ability to speak/write different languages, and other standards that have nothing to do with how they USED to hire: Decades ago they'd look for stable, long term people that weren't likely to go anywhere. Now, both armoured cars and banks hire anyone, and a lot of them have four Passports in three different names. They're GONE once they milk the cow. We even had that with my TD Bank in Canada: suddenly my branch shut down for two days, then opened...with all new faces. They had been making unsecured loans to friends from back home (Asia, India, etc). Then simply left the country. Most financial crimes are not worth pursuing overseas, and most countries wouldn't enforce a return of one of their own citizens anyway!!
I 100% suspect this. How else would they know in real time how much is in your bank account, what your last payment was, what the last several purchases were? It's an inside job. I had one try on a brand new business account at a small local bank who used a 3rd party for their debit cards. I had never used the debit card because I don't like them, it was locked in a safe. (Small at home business, no employees). They successfully sent a code to my phone on this account. To do this they had to have my user name and password! I immediately changed my password. I knew it was a scammer so didn't answer the phone. It had to be an employee selling the account information. No other way as there was no breach with this bank. They had just a few local branches but some branches in California as they had recently merged with another bank.
So for those that are confused by how his funds were stolen, the letter states that there was a "compromise of [his] online banking following the provision of personal information to a third party." That means he gave his login information to someone (most likely a scammer) that logged into his account and initiated the ACH.
That makes sense. That’s why the bank says they are not responsible.
It sounded like that, but this reporting sure wasn't very informative!
Thanks. I watched it twice thinking i missed the part of how it happened so we can all learn. Wish there more details of how he got tricked into giving his login details.
So..the Bank said "our name's Gus... nothing to do with us"..
This bank customer almost became of total victim like a couple of Chase Bank Customers that lost $160,000.00 and blamed her for not being diligent. I’m glad this bank customer was able to get his money back.
Yeah and IC3 sounds nice too. Glad news could help the guy. Always takes more effort to get your money back than to make it in the first place sadly.
The Chase one was the worst because the fraud was happening because she used Chase ATMs
Key Bank has a long, long, long history of this kind of stuff. I don't understand with all the access to information we have today anyone would do business with this or most other major banks.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
So, if you get a text or a call from "your bank" telling you that there's a problem or fraud going on, do not give them ANY information at all. Hang up and go drectly to your bank and talk to them personally. This is how the scammers screw you
That's what he did 😅 and Key Bank did nada until this news was involved!
Scams are 100% digital thefts using electronic devices.
Wouldn't it be something if a KeyBank employee was complicit in the fraud?
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
These banks, credit card companies and business are fast to take your money but returning in fraudulent case....10 to never business days.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
This is why our ancestors kept their money in a coffee can up in the kitchen cabinet, they didn't trust banks at all.
Sue the bank for allowing such a withdrawl without obtaining permission
Yes. A $59,000 withdrawal doesn't raise a red flag? Our bank, (Chase) often sends us a text when we buy $35 worth of gas from a certain gas station to ask if we made the purchase.
@@logicalblueberry yes that is the way it should be
Ikr? The banks are obligated by law to tell the government whenever we, the public, make a transaction of $10,000 or more because of money laundering. How did this not trigger any warning bells.
This is reporting. An excellent example of proper investigative journalism.
The bank said the customer gave out security information. I didn't get clarity from the customer if they did or did not, nor if the customer changed their security details from the first issue when calling the bank.
Wow. Imagine thinking this is "an excellent example of investigative journalism". It's barely journalism let alone investigative. Has it really been that long since you've seen actual investigative journalism that you mistake this for it?
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl
Nah
Terrible reporting. They blamed the bank, and then took credit for getting the money back. What is IC3? I don't know anyone that ever heard of it. Who took the money? Why wasn't anything done after the first phone call or visit? IC3 isn't responsible for blocking transactions. So much more to this story, but usual media reporting of taking one side and just reporting the juicy parts.
The bank should have told him to file a complaint with IC3 when he first went into the bank and when he called. I tell all my college students this when i worked on a college campus.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
Never even heard of it!
This was the same bank that was featured on CBS This Morning two years ago where a fake bank website and fraudulent calls caused a small business in Maine to have their account drained over a couple hundred thousand dollars, even exceeding their draft limits. Fortunately that incident was reportedly resolved, but it took the news station to contact the bank to get it done.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
Someone took the money 💰
All customers should pull their money out of Key Bank!
Time to withdraw all money from that bank. That's for sure 💯
Yeah, keep it all under your mattress!
No useful information was given to help viewers protect themselves. How was this guy compromised? This is shoddy journalism.
Exactly, the media never talked about how the hell this all started!
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
Hear hear. Finally a smart observation. Terrible reporting.
I just gotta say as a 29 yr old veteran in computer science, you guys rock. Thank you so much for helping these scammed folks keep their hard earned savings. God Bless!
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It is worth pondering how much money this person would have gotten back if the Fox 13 News hadn't made the issue public. I've seen this happen in my area with another news outlet that fights for people who are being done over by some big business, and only then do they clean up their act and make things right. I wish more news outlets would use their power and investigative methods to explore crooks in our banks and big businesses so the public can weigh in with where they spend their money.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
He would have gotten nothing
I'm so glad to hear dude got his money back.
'Under my mattress' is going to be our new local bank.
The IC3 information is obviously pertinent and important to everyone who comes across wire or ACH fraud. Why isn’t this information given to every single person who has a bank account?
It's probably in a long contract given to every customer, but it's not a reasonable demand that consumers memorize the names of relevant regulators or government organizations.
Thank goodness Fox 13 News was there!!! Good job guys!!!! Thank you for watching out for the little guys!!!
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
When their is fraud on the account. I call immediately while it’s pending and bank always says they need to wait til it’s posted. I just don’t get it why they can’t stop the pending.
Once the transaction shows approved the settlement is a force post. They have no means to block the settlement. Banks would love to have that ability but most of them are little fish that have to go by network regulations from Visa and Mastercard. The networks should be doing more to block fraud but they make $$$ the more transactions are made and take no loss from fraud unlike the banks.
This story does not answer, how did the client get his money stolen???? That is what we need to know in order to not become a victim of this type of scam 🤦🏻♂️
Yep! We need to know what this guy did wrong so we know what not to do!
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
I can tell you how it happened to me. When you do online banking with Key if you don't type in their web address and just go to google search with the name the first position will say key bank however it will be fake. Hackers buy a fake key bank AD and get it listed first. Then when you go to login it records your keystrokes and grabs your password for the bank. Then they start doing ACH withdrawals over and over again swiping your money they took 500.00 from me 3 times. Moral of the story NEVER type your bank name in search engine always type the web address in
The secret is that he didn’t actually get scammed. He was hacked and beamed
2:30 Sure sounds like he did something wrong, worthless journalism just skimming over that detail.
Seems like a lot of missing information in the story as usual. ACH takes upward of 3 days to settle, fraud often don't involve ACH due to timing. ACH is often used for repetitive payment of some sort like condo fees, payroll, recurring deposit into your retirement, etc. ACH fraud is often harder to pull off, that's why mail raiding isn't everywhere. I think the journalist needs to provide more info in this matter, perhaps he has all the info but the story would be less sweet had he shown it all.
Yes, the ACH part could spell so much… including self-perpetrated fraud. I see ACHs a lot, it’s never without the account holder first fill out the recipient’s full account info including address and number and amount. Something is real fish here.
No explanation of what the scam was. Something is not right here.
It’s always after the fact that they tell you he should have did this, he should did that……
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
I have not seen anyone address the fact that the bank said he shared account information with a third party. That’s a big part of the story. We don’t know what happened from this account.
What key bank isn't telling is that this happens daily. They get hacked daily it happened to me. Scammers put up a fraudulent key bank website in the top position on google ads and if you click the ad thinking its the bank they take your login info
@@wakeup7874that’s a very likely explanation. The way to avoid this is never click links to your bank website that were emailed or texted to you. Instead type it in (correctly!) or choose it from your bookmarks (if you know your bookmark is correct).
@@wakeup7874That’s not getting hacked. That’s you not doing your due diligence to verify the website is legitimate first.
Today you have to be careful responding to fraud emails,
if you receive such emails , you should immediately contact the bank or any other establishment to see if they sent yout the emails.
Exactly why I only keep enough to pay the monthly bills. The rest is kept in secure locations. I don't trust banks to protect my accounts or the fact that they can bail in, if they get in financial problems.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
That make since it that's what many of our ancestors did! 😊
Secure locations: buried in your backyard.
This bank's seems very suspicious, beware of them.
Same thing happened to me. I think it is someone on the inside.
me too definitely
*either the scammer steal the money or the government will steal the money.* 🤣
It’s amazing how these banks change their tune once news reporters get involved
If somebody sends you an alert from the bank don't answer it if I send you an email don't answer it don't even talk to him
Without the news investigating this. The bank would have never given the man's money back. 🤣😂
Be afraid, be very afraid!
This was serious but exactly what and how the security breach was done??!!! This report said NOTHING!!!!
This is the stuff take makes people have nightmares. It's like a slow motion train wreak with Key bank as train's engineer.
could not have said it better myself LOL
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
As a customer you shouldn't have to do all this to protect your money that you guve to the bank
i'm just glad this guy got his $$$ back. scammers need to get severe prison sentences!
You pretty much have to not only contact someone high up but also coordinate with a news station and let the business know that you are. They hate negative press.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
This story is so confusing.. so were the calls from the bank legit or not? And why did he go from talking to them on the phone to going into the branch to report fraud?? There isn’t even any info about how the money was taken.
Great investigative critical thinking. He hung up after he realized something is fishy. Then he went in and that was the first time he talked to someone really from the bank. He spoke to the scammers twice and gave critical info about his account. I bet money on it despite the terrible full-of-holes bad journalism and reporting. Good brain there!
Maybe he could a answered the spoofed number. Last month I got a random call claiming to be from my bank but alarm bells kept going off. And also that call was at 6:4 pm. I DID NOT call that spoofed number back but the number on the back of my bank card. I told the agent that I got a call from a fake number...and the agent told me there was nothing out of the ordinary considering the fact that I'm always monitoring everything. Seems like my suspicion was confirmed....
As a fraus officer for a bank in Canada , i can assure you that the bank screwed up big time and kept making excuses hoping the client would give up and stop chasing. Good for him that he didnt. Also the bank refunded the money because they knew they messed up and could be in trouble if this went any further. Bank will do everything they can to not give money back
When they say recover, did they actually reverse the transactions from the scammers or the bank foots the cost to the customer?
Banks aren’t safe anymore. You feel like you can’t trust any of them. Crazy times we’re living in!!!
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Once he notified the bank after the first alert he received was definitely fraud, I don't understand why the bank didn't closed that account ASAP, instead of waiting until there were two or three more withdrawals transactions done.🤔
Trust me the backs are incredibly incompetent. Even after I alerted the bank personally to the branch manager. They still let the guy go in with a fake ID and withdrawal from my account. With a fake military ID, I never been in the military
Did they find out who scammed him? How did he get scammed? Did he give someone his information? Would like to know more details.
I’m wondering the same
Fr! Need to know what went wrong. Sounds like the customer was at no fault.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
No probley not they never find them
What I learned from this report is... Call the News. They are better and faster at getting your money bank than the FBI
This is despicable, that someone would rob this man like that. But I must ask, he's JUST NOW finding out that banks are the "villains"? They are BANKS. Of course, they are the villains.
And owned by the Rothschilds.
Based on the lack of detail regarding how the money was taken, the victim was likely scammed in some way. Guessing he was called by a spoofed number that appeared to be the bank and providing the scammer the security code to transfer out the funds. That would explain the lack of action and the letter the bank sent.
Of course they didn't do anything until the customer contacted the TV station and the executive team... 😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe Key Bank should be scrutinizing their management staffing choices at that particular branch and separate them.
He reported the fraudulent activity & the bank still released the funds???? WTF? That’s the bank’s responsibility
They always try to fight you tooth and nail to give you your money back.
this is garbage reporting, how was he scammed? Was he phished? Or was this completely out of his control, identity theft style?
Yep! There was no information on how, what, and when this all happened! Junk news!
I can tell you I bet he went to online banking but didn't type in the entire web address for key bank. Scammers buy the ads for key bank to get the top position. Then log your key strokes.
Once they access login info they withdraw your money. They took 500.00 from my account via ACH withdrawals three times it took key bank 1 month to give me my money back.
The Banks needs to be sued!
Banking tricks - for checking accounts only keep what you need to pay bills. Anything you need to save store in a separate non checking account. You can move the money freely from one account to the other but any checking info that is disclosed to vendors would only have access to that checking account not your savings etc.
Ever hear the term - Don't put all your eggs in 1 basket? This is one of those scenarios for that term.
Also, those who are lucky to have over $250k in banks. Read the FDIC requirements and only keep enough to be within the protective coverage amounts backed by the feds.
1910 nw 2nd street, Fort Lauderdale, fl. its the hairdresser
@@Narnho459Why and how is this info relevant?
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Reason I don't blame people who don't believe in banks.
Yeah file a claim with IC3 and NEVER GET A RESPONSE from anyone. That's been my experience with filing a claim on IC3. What a joke..
This is unclear. They don’t say how the scammers got his money. He went into the bank and talked to several managers… So how did it happen?
It happened to me twice with my BOFA business account. Twice $50k flew out of my account via ACH. BOFA never bothered to explain how this could happen. I called FBI on one occasion. Oh, it's an online fraud, talk to your bank. That was their answer. America is run by the rich for the rich. We peons don't matter.
Exactly. HOW did they get the money?
so who stole the money? was it an inside job? so many questions still.
This is a Reg E violation. Report them to the CFPB, BBB, and the Attorney General for WA State. Close your accounts at megabanks and join your local community bank or credit union.
-A Regulatory Compliance Officer
(this is not legal or financial advice, simply an observation of another disgusting big bank violation and who may help remedy it)
Don’t waste your time with the BBB. They are not the government and not a regulatory body. Businesses just pay them to get listed. They might help you with a business that’s a BBB member by pressuring the business, but that’s all they can do.
@@Sashazur It's the shared experiences with the BBB. That's why I recommend it as well. People go there to read reviews to check out businesses. The more people that know about the 'ick', the better off we will be.
My bank tried to screw me, while I was in the bank! They paid anyway as I told them not too. I sued them and won.
Wow and good for you!Because they are the "third" party!!
persistence didnt pay off publicity did
Those monies are FDIC insured and the bank failed not the consumer. The gentleman money was replaced based on it would have been a lawsuit and he could have went after more money based on negligence and embezzlement. We really need to be cautious with how banks are operating these days especially when we have money in them.
Banks should be liable because of their poor security !!
How did he get scammed. He should have said how he became a victim.
In the old days, this didn't happen.
Credit Unions protect you better
Only reason why he got his money back was because the issue landed on the CEO desks and the power of the News Media. I'm happy he got his money back. But banks are terrible.
Why would he leave $60,000 in his checking when he knew something fishy was going on?
I have 1 cent in my checking. Good luck stealing it.
Move your money to savings when you notice unusual activity. Unless you have $60,000 outstanding checks waiting to be cashed, it makes no sense keeping that much cash there.
I agree
Same, I only keep enough to cover monthly bills.
Absolutely...... there are plenty of scammers out there only too willing to move your "endangered " cash into another special account to keep it safe!
Time to take all of your money out of Key Bank folks.
This is why I use a credit card for everything. Play with their money and not mine.
So scams are authorized then ?
Wait, if he was told that the money would not be going anywhere why would he accept a statement like "the money would be back by the 18th". You said it wasn't going anywhere so it's still there right? Also the bank reported a "result of a compromise of your online b banking following the provision of personal information to a third-party" - a we need a little more detail here. Did he or did he not give out personal information to the fraudsters? I hate it when reporting like this leaves out the critical details such that that.
Why does it take an FBI report to freeze bank funds? That's absolutely ludicris on it's face.
Scammers will come at you from all different angles.