""Criminals had taken out nine different accounts using my name and my Social Security number," Rosenberg said. "They had set up all sorts of drug cartels... throughout the country and perhaps abroad... 'Have you noticed anybody trying to follow you?' And so he's already really got me really scared," she said."
""I want you to go to the bank and keep your phone on in your purse so I could hear the conversation," Rosenberg said she was told."
""The teller asked me, 'Is anybody forcing you to do this?' and I didn't quite know how to handle that, so I sort of nodded, no," Rosenberg said."
A Bay Area elderly woman was conned into preparing a $63,000 cashier's check after receiving texts claiming her Apple ID was stolen and a caller posing as a federal inspector general showed a badge photo. The caller alleged multiple accounts had been opened using her name and Social Security number and urged her to move funds into a "protected" account while keeping the phone on. A Bank of America teller processed the cashier's check, but Citibank tellers grew suspicious and turned her away. Consumer advocates recovered the money, and authorities in Washington arrested a man suspected of similar impersonation schemes targeting seniors.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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