Victim Location 01062
Type of a scam Credit Cards
I was contacted by a representative on 12/14/17 informing me that there had been a breach on the company’s server, and they were refunding customers’ money and giving them one year of free services. "Alex Wilson" (with an Indian accent) asked me to access my bank account so that they could deposit the refund into it. Then–oops! He realized that instead of refunding me $400 (when he should have refunded $100), he had refunded $4400, and asked me to return the money via two Walmart money orders on two subsequent days, issued in the name of someone with my last name in Mumbai. He said he would be fired for his mistake, and to have mercy on him and redress his mistake. I could only do this in $2000 increments, and only if it were not a business transaction, but to someone I knew personally. He told me to say it was to my cousin.
I checked my bank balance, as he had advised me to do, to prove that the $4400 had been deposited in my checking account. However, I also checked my savings account, which had had, surprisingly, the sum of $4400 transferred into my checking account. I phoned the bank and had
the money redeposited into my savings account, changing my password and ultimately changing my debit card account.
"Alex" had the temerity to phone me again about 20 minutes ago. I told him I knew about what he had done and not to phone again, and hung up.