Teenage girl loses $37000 in seconds in horror phone banking scam
In a shocking turn of events, a teenage girl named Aurora Casilli from Albany, Western Australia, lost around Australian $37000 within a matter of seconds in a phone banking scam. The 18-year-old was scammed out of all her life's savings that she had accumulated since beginning work at the age of just 14. Her dream was to buy a house of her own. She was so focused on her dream that she was working at three jobs simultaneously! After losing her money, Aurora says she “has nothing to her name,” news.com.au reported.
Aurora said that on December 3 last year, she received a text message which claimed that an anonymous user was trying to make a transfer of money from her account. The message was fake, but she believed it to be from the National Australia Bank where her account was. The reason she believed it was that it was from the same number and in the same text message thread as the previous messages from the bank.
The message further requested the receiver to call on their number in case she had not authorised the payment. In a "state of panic," she dialed the mentioned number. She even claimed that music and voice prompts were identical to the previous conversations that she had in the past with the bank. The report says that she even "waited an hour" on hold to connect with someone which made the situation even more real!
When she finally got connected, the scammer suggested Aurora transfer her entire savings into another bank account to ensure full safety. Fully convinced that her money was in danger, she quickly transferred $36561.37 to another account. As soon as the scammer hung up, Aurora realised that the money was not actually transferred to a NAB account, but to a Commonwealth Bank account. She immediately
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