{"id":1195,"date":"2021-04-17T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T07:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/haunted-by-shame-victims-of-bank-transfer-scams-tell-of-lasting-trauma\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T09:41:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T07:41:58","slug":"haunted-by-shame-victims-of-bank-transfer-scams-tell-of-lasting-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/haunted-by-shame-victims-of-bank-transfer-scams-tell-of-lasting-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted by shame: victims of bank transfer scams tell of lasting trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraud can have devastating consequences on victims, and not only financially<\/p>\n<p>Mary Higgins\u2019s life changed the moment the phone rang one afternoon in November. The caller claimed to be from the Metropolitan police fraud department and told her that her bank cards had been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>In an elaborate scam, involving two days of phone calls from fake officials, the 78-year-old was persuaded that she was helping police with a money-laundering sting in which her bank was complicit and agreed to transfer \u00a310,000 from her Santander account to \u201csafe\u201d havens.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/apr\/17\/bank-transfer-scams-fraud-victims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cc6d8de560e44b2371d23c434d23bc7aa17bd72f\/0_125_4901_2942\/master\/4901.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5e8b4be38076b9ed8d8f79731054e519\" title=\"Haunted by shame: victims of bank transfer scams tell of lasting trauma\" \/>Fraud can have devastating consequences on victims, and not only financially<br \/>\nMary Higgins\u2019s life changed the moment the phone rang one afternoon in November. The caller claimed to be from the Metropolitan police fraud department and told her that her bank cards had been compromised.<br \/>\nIn an elaborate scam, involving two days of phone calls from fake officials, the 78-year-old was persuaded that she was helping police with a money-laundering sting in which her bank was complicit and agreed to transfer \u00a310,000 from her Santander account to \u201csafe\u201d havens. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraud can have devastating consequences on victims, and not only financially Mary Higgins\u2019s life changed the moment the phone rang one afternoon in November. The caller claimed to be from the Metropolitan police fraud department and told her that her bank cards had been compromised. In an elaborate scam, involving two days of phone calls &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/haunted-by-shame-victims-of-bank-transfer-scams-tell-of-lasting-trauma\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Haunted by shame: victims of bank transfer scams tell of lasting trauma<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}