Woman conned out of £50,000 in phishingscam
by Mark Frauenfelder from on (#CAAZ)
Vivian Gabb, 59, of London, was in the middle of buying a house and somehow a criminal learned of the details, impersonated her solicitor, and emailed her with instructions to wire the money to the "bank." After she lost the money she went back and looked at the email and noticed that the email address the scammer used was missing an "s" in "partners." She lost 50,000, her life savings.
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