Take a crazy guess what happened to NY Mag's personal finance columnist.
Take a crazy guess what happened to NY Mag's personal finance columnist.
Spoiler
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.
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Imagine believing someone because they tell you they're CIA. If you read even a paragraph about the history of the American empire you would know never to trust a CIA person
I'm sort of shocked that the bank let this person make that kind of withdrawal. I would have assumed it would set off some kind of internal alarm bells or audit reports or something.
Usually banks don't let people withdraw huge amounts in cash for this exact reason - to protect their customers from scams - but maybe that's less common in The Land Of The Free. "It's my money, I'll spend it how I want!" Idk.
I'm surprised the bank even had that much cash on hand, usually you need to order taking that much out in advance.
I think the line is "It's my money, and I want it now!"
I took $600 out of my account last week to buy something off Craigslist and my bank called me about it
It's likely she has a fuckload of money in other accounts for investments etc so it didn't go over the threshold.
Setting all of that aside, let's just pretend you're dumb enough to buy all of that garbage
Imagine a 'CIA agent' telling you 'Yeah, have 50k in a shoebox for our man' and...not asking any real questions?
Not being like 'hmm, maybe the state intelligence apparatus with a budget rivaling most small countries' GDP would use a more sophisticated technique than a single call where they tell me to stick my life savings in the box my fucking Nikes came in'?