HOUSTON – Just six weeks after the passing of her longtime husband, Houstonian Cindy Finney fell victim to an elaborate scam that ended up costing her nearly six figures. After a pop-up appeared on her computer screen, Cindy got on the phone with what she thought was legitimate tech support. It wasn’t.
After then receiving what looked like official notices from the IRS and the FTC, along with threats that someone had been using her identity to commit crimes, Cindy wired $90,000 into what she thought was a federal account to keep her money safe. Turns out every bit of it was a scam.
“They just caught me at the right time, the right circumstance, and they knew how much money I had,” said Cindy, who said the situation created so much stress she barely left her house for six months…