re: Wire fraud - scammed

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A coworkers brother fell for the Microsoft support popup. He called the number and they told him they found c*ild p*rn and brought in an "FBI Agent." This guy told him they knew he didnt do it but unless he worked with them to catch the real predator he would be responsible. He couldn't tell anybody because the perpetrator could even be a close family member. Of course it went from there to convincing him to buy bitcoin and transfer it god knows where. It cost him about 30k before he wised up.

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I don't understand who someone who can acquire $30k in liquidity and figure out how to navigate bitcoin could fall for such foolishness.

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Hi long ago did it happen? More than 48 hrs? FBI can freeze transfer if noticed within 48 hrs of sending

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In what dreamland are you living? Even accepting your hypothesis, the feds wouldn’t even put down their coffee for 10k. And..That would require the scammee to realize it, then get to the FBI with proper documentation. No way in hell a bank could or would do it that fast. Then, even if the FBI acted interested, there is no way in hell they would react in time. Now if it was someone of the protected class like politicians, maybe they would do something.

But once you hit send, that money is gone. Ain’t no getting it back or freezing it.

It’s not just old people.A guy I worked with,in his 40’s fell for this scam where if you gave this guy any amount of money you chose he would invest it for you and double your money in one year.
The pitch was the”investor” appreciated the way my co-worker( a nurse)took care of his mother in ICU.He gave the “investor $15k.
He told me about it,I told him he might as well have burned the $15 k.
Of course he never saw a penny.
Greed is what got him,just like all the people that got scammed by Bernie Madoff.

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I once saw a doc which showed a training class for phone marketers

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I think it was "Telemarketers".

And to the poster who said people "lose" IQ as they age - while I don't necessarily disagree that people slow down, you have to factor in how fast technology evolves, that people in their 80's never grew up with. Add to it some innocent belief that society isn't out to hurt you; that the guy on the other end of the phone isn't a thief, because that's the world they came from.