ATLANTA — An Atlanta woman said crooks cleared her bank account the day after her yearly bonus was deposited.
The criminals posed as the bank to steal the money.
Marina Camplone realized something was going wrong as it was happening and rushed to a Buckhead Chase bank branch where a teller wrote account information on a Post-it and told her to run across the street.
The criminals were wiring the money to a Wells Fargo account so Camplone also rushed there trying to stop it.
“I feel like I should have had it at home in an envelope somewhere in a box under the mattress,” she said.
Camplone noticed fraudulent charges all over the country multiple times over several months from her Chase debit card.
“I said ‘should I close the account? What’s going on?’ And they said no, we’re gonna just reissue your debit card. You’ll be fine,” she said.
So, when someone claiming to be a Chase fraud representative called her from the same number that was on the back of her debit card, she took the call.