The multitude of various scams continues to multiply.
I know an older woman, single, who lived with a good friend of mine for several years. They split up and she moved to New Jersey to be with a couple of family members. She'd been a Registered Nurse for many years and had a very nice banking account with Chase. Somehow, a scam artist got a whole bunch of personal information about her, and her Chase account.
He called her and used all her personal information to assure her he was legit and told her that Chase was getting ready to seize all checking and savings accounts for some dubious reason or another and she should close her accounts with Chase and send the money to a "safe" bank so she'd have her retirement secure.
She immediately went to her Chase bank, pulled out all her money despite Chase employees trying to dissuade her. She sent it to the "safe" bank and never heard from them again. Now, she has a small Social Security income and a small retirement income, and lives in a small travel trailer in a trailer park.
There is no shortage of gullible people who are easily manipulated by the scam artists.
L.W.
