Melbourne: A Melbourne woman has been exposed to an internet scam in which she lost all her life savings.
Donna Brin (56 years old) works as a nurse, and she started collecting money for her retirement after her separation from her husband, but what happened to her a few days ago was very strange.
Donna noticed $210 going into her Commonwealth Bank account, and then she got a call from a stranger asking for the wrongly transferred amount to be returned to her account.
The victim confirmed that the person did not ask for passwords or any personal information about her, and despite that, the fraudsters were able to find out enough to hack her account and withdraw the money, successively and quickly, as the amount of $ 500 was withdrawn in the first operation, then $ 20,000, then 80,000 countries, according to the website “Australia in Arabic”.
“I just wanted a nice home to live in after all the suffering in my life,” she added.
It is noteworthy that hundreds of Australians have so far been exposed to online fraud, and losses reached $2 billion last year, double the amount in 2020.
Banks and banks cannot guarantee the return of the funds to their owners, as fraudsters are skilled in their methods, and they find no way but to warn and call for caution and caution always.
Donna Brin was one of the lucky ones to get the money back, but she became so obsessed that she checked her account daily to make sure she had her money in it.
