A MOM recalled how $7,000 was wiped from her account – hours after being told she due to be a witness in a federal case.
Naomi Bloom, from Iowa, claimed she faced consequences if she didn’t appear.
But, in July 2023, she was the victim of a scam that saw fraudsters purporting to be cops from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, per the ABC affiliate WOI-DT.
Bloom, a social worker, said she received a call that informed her she had been subpoenaed.
She revealed that she had been called up as an expert before, so didn’t suspect anything out of the ordinary.
Bloom claimed the scammers demanded her to withdraw money before they started to threaten her children.
She was ordered to go to an ATM and withdraw $5,100, before taking out $1,500 from another location, per the CBS affiliate KCCI.
Bloom claimed the fraudsters knew information about her job as well as personal details.