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Strongly disagree. If the transaction was still in pending status, she could get it frozen/reversed at her bank. If not, that's a freaking horrible bank and I would close my account ASAP. If it already cleared, it's moot to talk about the bank fixing it. Now the cops, FBI, AG get involved.
If there was fraud involved, yes there is a chance, but they will not get a dime from the bank. Since it was a US bank, I assume, it might be possible to track down the crooks if they were not smart. If this was overseas it would be no chance in hell.
Sorry, yes, this is what I was saying. Not a cent from the bank. I'm not speaking of any other sources. My point was, the bank has no responsibility to refund anything. And they won't.
The spammer prob erased, so if she doesn't have a smartphone, I guess she didn't? If she does have any type of smartphone, then these emails would've gone right to her This is one of my questions though.
She got some emails from a fake email in her sister's name. That is the only email chain she has.
GF has a smartphone, so unlikely that they sent the emails to her sister from GFs actual email, I'm thinking. Or did something to modify where it goes when you respond to it.
Yep.
this for sure.....hopefully they can freeze the account that the money entered into. Get the fraud department of the initiating bank working on this ASAP. For all of you that hate big banks, it is times likes these that having a large platform really helps.
With all due respect your GF's sister, but this should've been a GIGANTIC red flag when being asked for $10k. In all honesty, I think TXBuckeye is correct and she prob will never recover the funds. Sorry to hear.
Anyone know of where/who to contact at Google to make sure that everything is signed out?
That's my understanding of it. One number shy. The bank in TX wouldn't even talk to my GF until she came brought them the right account #.
They can try, but it's doubtful the fraudster leaves money in the account. It's almost certainly already gone.
Going to need to flush out the details....
Not at liberty to fill in details, even if I had them. GF & family generally very private about finances & GF specifically requested I not share a bunch of background info here.
With how much spam mail everyone gets, I have to think even this approach would be fruitless. But I agree...this is the strangest part of the story to me - the sheer "luck" of it.
Good Q. Is the debt now considered closed or still owed?Why does the title say "GF scammed" when it appears that the GF's sister was scammed?
My wife and I both had someone submit false unemployment claims in our name. We were notified by the companies, and they immediately denied the claims.So there are people out there trying to submit false claims hoping to get lucky. They need to go online, fill out at least 1hr worth of forms, and then hope the company accidentally doesn't notice a person is still employed. Then they get at max $1100 a month, and are required to submit 3 places they applied at 2x a month. Seems like a lot of work to go through, but the FL Unemployment fraud Dept. Said they get up to 25 calls a day. This all started when they stopped sending checks, and started sending the pre-loaded visa cards.
Yeah, it probably could be more accurately titled.Good Q. Is the debt now considered closed or still owed?Why does the title say "GF scammed" when it appears that the GF's sister was scammed?
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