{"id":13555,"date":"2024-03-02T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/i-was-in-despair-how-lending-a-phone-led-to-life-savings-being-stolen\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T06:37:18","slug":"i-was-in-despair-how-lending-a-phone-led-to-life-savings-being-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/i-was-in-despair-how-lending-a-phone-led-to-life-savings-being-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was in despair\u2019: how lending a phone led to life savings being stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thief went on \u00a39,000 spree with the victim\u2019s money before using her Uber account to travel to Stansted<\/p>\n<p>If you are one of those people who keeps their debit card in their mobile phone case, has a note of their pin on their handset, or only ever uses mobile banking, you may want to rethink your setup after you read the case of Sami Souret*.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent night out the 28-year-old healthcare professional was kind enough to help a man who asked to borrow her phone. Less than six hours later, her \u00a39,350 life savings had been spent by him on Apple products in London. And the final indignity: he used her Uber account to take a cab to Stansted airport.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2024\/mar\/02\/i-was-in-despair-how-lending-a-phone-led-to-life-savings-being-stolen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/948105d3dff4c4c907b27490e4df40a148d5e809\/0_172_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c80dabe300ee7176bbe286f7cec6c750\" title=\"\u2018I was in despair\u2019: how lending a phone led to life savings being stolen\" \/>Thief went on \u00a39,000 spree with the victim\u2019s money before using her Uber account to travel to Stansted<br \/>\nIf you are one of those people who keeps their debit card in their mobile phone case, has a note of their pin on their handset, or only ever uses mobile banking, you may want to rethink your setup after you read the case of Sami Souret*.<br \/>\nOn a recent night out the 28-year-old healthcare professional was kind enough to help a man who asked to borrow her phone. Less than six hours later, her \u00a39,350 life savings had been spent by him on Apple products in London. And the final indignity: he used her Uber account to take a cab to Stansted airport. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thief went on \u00a39,000 spree with the victim\u2019s money before using her Uber account to travel to Stansted If you are one of those people who keeps their debit card in their mobile phone case, has a note of their pin on their handset, or only ever uses mobile banking, you may want to rethink &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/i-was-in-despair-how-lending-a-phone-led-to-life-savings-being-stolen\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I was in despair\u2019: how lending a phone led to life savings being stolen<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13556,"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\/13555"}],"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=13555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}