Victim Location 44143
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order
Ok it all started February 4th around a quarter to 10:00 am when I was on Instagram checking out my recent messages when the scammer had already followed me on social media and I was unaware that she was a scammer by the looks of her profile. Because to me she looked like a regular female.
Couple minutes later she texted me,”Hey are you interested ??” I was curious to see what this was about and she asked me what bank do I have ? And she was telling me that she pays 60% and sends it to me and told me all I have to do is send 40% back. And she was talking about going to the Walmart money center Or go to western union to send the check etc. But since I said my bank is Huntington thats when she said to send my name my account username and password and phone number then she texted me thru her number so she could proceed on with this scam . Then she asked for my identification card I was a little uneasy then then she was saying she doesn’t have time for bs and she seemed real angry/ anxious to get this done . So after I had sent my information she told me that her supervisor will contact me for more info and kept reinstating that it was 100% legit guaranteed and still not a scam. When her supervisor called me I still did not see the red flag. He said he works for many banks such as Bank of America pnc bank usaa , etc. and they also sent me like various examples of different people that had lot of money in their account but bottom line he led me to believe that this was real . Then he told me the money should be in the next day but it didn’t happen that way also when he sent the picture of check it showed that he misspelled my name and the location for where he got it from seems very fishy. But he said that’s on me everything is good on that check regardless of misspelled name then he told me that everything is gonna be okay then the other lady was asking for the results as well and she sent this emoji ????? when I said that he sent the check with a misspelled name then she asked about my social media accounts and promised to get my followers into the ”business” then it was when one of friends asked was I being hacked and I explained to her what had happened that was when she told me the same thing happened to her and her mother with this scam and to tell me be careful with who you give your information to. So after work Friday I went to speak with someone at Huntington regarding my account and the bank teller said it looks like a bad check and my account is currently put on hold and the only I could do was wait til Monday morning for further instructions.
So when I went to call Huntington bank Monday morning they said my bank account is still put on hold/pending with the check so they said wait till at least Monday night going into Tuesday morning for the check to clear. So I called Tuesday morning they told me that the only thing I could do was report it to either police or bbb and go to a Huntington branch and remove my previous amount out of the account and close that account and start a new one. So if I had learned anything from this is to never fall into this trap again and black them immediately no questions asked .