Summary…
Her husband works for a non-profit, she’s 39, but they live in a $4 million house.
Take a crazy guess what happened to NY Mag’s personal finance columnist. - Hexbear
How I Fell for an Amazon Scam Call and Handed Over $50,000
The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam.
I think almost everyone gets scammed out of something… But there’s a big difference between her and some kid sending a classmate 50$ on a money app for a bag of oregano or someone losing money in a relatively complicated financial scam like digital currencies, or even someone over 60 doing what she did. I don’t think very many 39 year olds hand over 50K because someone who called who knew their social.
A part of it as well is a lot of scams targeting the elderly are designed to be subtle and go on for years, so a retiree sending half their pension to a scammer every month might not even realise that they’re being scammed and think they’re being given a “home security service” or something, and so wouldn’t report it.
the biggest scam that’s ever happened to me is like when CVS charges $1 more than walmart.
After, presumably, the scam of the inherent labor theft of wage work