A DAUGHTER is taking on Wells Fargo after the bank claims there is nothing it can do about the theft of her mother’s life savings from a scam.
Judith Anderson from San Diego, California, was scammed out of $150,000 just before Christmas and is being refused help from the bank.
The 74-year-old has been a Wells Fargo customer for over 50 years and was using the money to pay for her husband’s care and for a place for her to relocate near her daughter Tracy Martinez.
Martinez has been fighting her mother’s corner with the bank and by sharing their story on TikTok.
Anderson had received a phone call from Wells Fargo Bank just days before Christmas and was told that it was the fraud department and that several purchases had been made in Texas which she needed the verify.
The scammers had managed to spoof the caller ID to look like the contact details of Wells Fargo.
When Anderson informed them that she did not make the purchases in Texas she was told to prove her identity and in doing so she gave them all of the information they needed to enter her account.