HOUSTON — A Houston woman says a scam so convincing it appeared to come from her bank, and the FBI, ended with her entire life savings gone.
Diane Fendley says it started with what looked like a routine fraud alert text message. The text claimed to be from the Wells Fargo Fraud Department and asked if she had attempted a charge at Walmart. When Fendley replied “no,” she says the messages quickly escalated.
“They were telling me that they were doing an investigation on this branch, that there’s been fraud for the last three months. They told me I needed to get to the bank and take care of my money,” Fendley said…