The elaborate 'Microsoft' scam had the Nassau County woman rushing to try to prevent a hack, but the whole ordeal came to a devastating end.
The plan was elaborate. Lee says the person on the phone gave her a script of what she should tell the bank workers if they asked. And they told her not to go to her usual branch, but a different one because the workers might know the hackers.
She went to a different branch where the teller there also asked if she was sure about the transaction. Lee authorized it and four hours later, she came to a realization: “I said holy, I think I’ve been scammed!” And then she called the information technology worker who set up her home computers. He told her to immediately shut down her computer. Immediately she got a phone call:"You just turned off your computer."
“I don’t think of myself as that stupid we know the thing your son’s been kidnapped we have your grand children, I’ve gotten those I don’t fall for them but this,” said Lee. “Hook, line and sinker. I could not have been more dumb.”
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