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$7,500 Abruptly Drained From a Florida Couple’s Wells Fargo Account After Criminals Impersonating Her Bank Call Her
Scammers posing as Wells Fargo’s fraud department have taken more than $7,500 from a couple after convincing them to read back verification codes sent to their phone.
Carmen Evans says the caller ID on her phone showed Wells Fargo, and the man on the line, who called himself Michael, told her there were questionable transactions on her account, reports WKMG News 6. The caller mentioned purchases at Sam’s Club and Walmart that the Orlando, Florida resident recognized, then brought up a $3,000 charge she says she never made.
Says Evans, “I did not have to give him my name. The only thing he asked me at that point was, ‘You’re going to be getting some text with the code.
Just make sure you repeat the code to me.’” After she shared the codes, Evans says she could no longer get into her bank accounts. She and her husband, William, went to a Wells Fargo branch, where William says an employee told them there was activity in their accounts while they were standing there.
