Victim Location 30215
Total money lost $27,000
Type of a scam Other
On Sunday November 6th a friend of a friend said that this company was going to deposit a deposit in my account how did that go about I trusted the person I gave him my account information so they did deposit 18000 Plus in my account on Monday my friend called and said that his friend had deposited money in my account Jake Enterprise but he use Bard Optical both are the same company so I went into Regions Bank to my bank and I had to do two transactions to send $9,000 to Kenya and I had to take 9600 to Bank of America put it in our account for material for Houston I wasn’t able to do it Monday the bank told me to come back Tuesday in the money should be available and that’s what I did so Tuesday I did both transaction and after I finish doing the transaction my friend wanted receipts so I took picture of the receipt and send it to him later on that afternoon probably wouldn’t even three hours after I did the transaction Regions Bank security called me and said that they had me for fraud that someone had hacked into that account and took the money and put it in my account and they want to know where was the $9,600 and that they were gone retrak the $9,000 and I told them I had the information where I did the Bank trans action he proceeded to say that he was going to have me locked up here going to have the police come to my door for bank fraud and I told him do what he needs to do because I have all the information right here in front of me I didn’t got off the phone and I called my friend and told my friend what was going on that that deposit his friend put in their account had been hacked by someone else he said he would talk to his friend you know that he was puzzle I called my bank talked to my bank and told them what was going on and they put me on hold and did customer service lady came back and said your account has been frozen that I need to go to the bank where I open my account at so the next day I went to my bank that morning and took all the information that I have and the bank customer service manager wouldn’t even look at my look at the information that I had she told me I need to take it to my County police officer and before I can get there I had to go by the house and get more information the phone rings and it was the detectives from Fayetteville telling me to come down there to see him bring all the information that I had at the bank I ask did I need a lawyer he said up to me I didn’t talk to a lawyer because I was innocent and I was accused of bank fraud but it was a scam my bank account is still frozen I have all my information the transaction both transaction also I had a check from my friend to hold till he came to Georgia because I borrow 13000, 6000 and I emptied out my saving account of $7,000 to help this person no one is hurt by this but me. They detected wanted to know why did I trust this guy then I proceeded to show him the check that my friend had mailed me and that was a $753,000 paycheck that he learned as an architect The Detective looked at the check did something with his phone and said the check was a fraud that I have been scanned by my friend and his friend when I left that detect the he told me to take my information to my County police station and file a scam nobody’s doing nothing these people are getting away they filed a false fraud on me my bank account froze my saving account and checking account Regions Bank