woman transferred $6K of her money via instructions from fraudster, also got naked and spun in circles on facetime

The male caller--who spoke with an accent--told the woman that there was a “potential fraudulent charge pending” on her account. To safeguard her money, the purported bank employee said, she “would have to move her funds into a different account to avoid her money being stolen.”

With the scam artist still on the phone, the woman went to a local Huntington Bank branch (seen above) and withdrew $6000. She then was directed to a nearby Chase Bank ATM, where she deposited the cash onto a Chase debit card via her iPhone’s Apple Pay feature.

After having spent two hours on the phone with the man, the woman--whose name was redacted from the police report--returned home and got another call from the fraudster, who wanted to FaceTime with her. The man, who did not have his camera on, asked the woman to “provide them with a full body scan to verify her identity due to a failed transaction.”

The woman told cops that she “undressed and spun in circles on FaceTime” to confirm her identity. When the voice on the other end began to laugh, the woman realized that she had been scammed. And humiliated, to boot.

While police have subpoenaed various bank records, the likelihood of identifying the perp--probably working from a call center in India--are remote.

https://thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/cruel-ohio-scam-729630