Another scam targeting older adults has left a senior in Quebec with a massive loss.
Cassandra Schafhausen, an 81-year-old Montreal woman, says she was scammed out of more than $100,000 in a banking phone scam.
Schafhausen says the fraudulent scheme was “sleek” and sounded “very professional.”
She told Global News she received a call from someone pretending to be the bank informing her that she had been the victim of fraud.
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The person on the line said the bank needed to collect her cards and pin to cancel the transactions and intervene.
She told Global News she’s upset she fell for the spoof, but is even more furious with her bank for the way she says it is handling the case.
For the full story, watch the video above.
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