After a Woodridge woman lost nearly $100,000 to a PayPal scam, NBC 5 Responds was able to step in and get her money back.
An unexpected bill, often catching many off guard, was part of the scam that helped ensnare Valerie, a Woodridge resident who asked us not to use her last name
Later, she received another bill appearing to be from PayPal, with this bill stating that Valerie allegedly owed them $500. Valerie said the man talking to her instructed her to download a program that allowed him to access her computer, and then asked her to log into her bank account so he could return her money.“He had put in $100,000 in my bank account. And I told him it wasn't mine. So I wanted to give it back to him. While he had done really behind the scenes was manipulate numbers to make it look like he had given me $100,000,” Valerie said.
“When I got back home, I saw that my account, my savings account, had been drained of that $100,000, and I'm thinking well, you just stole money from me. in tears thinking, ‘I've lost everything. I've lost everything,'” Valerie said.In December, Chase Bank responded to Valerie in a letter, stating they“I've seen your work. I've seen the people you've helped. It's believable. You're believable.
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