Brandon Wilson had just left a bar in Chicago’s Gold Coast Historic District last Labor Day when he found himself surrounded by thieves.
“They threatened me,” Wilson told ABC-7 in Chicago. “They asked me to open my wallet to give them my phone, to unlock my phone… I was beyond terrified.”
Fearing for his life, he said he gave the thieves all the valuables he had on him at the time, including his cellphone, which he unlocked. They took off running, but the nightmare for Wilson was just beginning.
Wilson filed a police report. But when he got home, he found much more had been taken from him. Several Zelle transactions had been conducted, transferring more than $4,000 from Wilson’s account to others. He called Bank of America to submit a fraud claim, and they provided him a temporary line of credit totaling the money that was stolen…