A warning about the subtle tactics used by scammers, highlighting a Minnesota widow’s struggle with unauthorised charges totalling nearly $8,000 and how victims often battle to prove their innocence.
Scams do not always arrive as obvious fraud. Sometimes they come dressed as urgency, authority or even hope. The writer of the original post says she has nearly been caught three times, and her warning is sharpened by a Washington Post account of a Minnesota widow who spent months fighting more than 1,700 unauthorised credit card charges before Citibank finally removed them. The pattern is familiar: tiny debits repeated at speed, a large total built out of small losses and a customer forced to prove what should have been obvious. According to the Washington Post, the charges added up to almost $8,000.
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