That's it I agree

Because old ppl come from a time where way more folks were honest. They trust. The high lvls of deceit coupled with a technology they barely grasp mentally makes them prime targets. Remember, in old days many times a deal was sealed with a handshake and nothing else. 😢

​@@LisaG442 My 92-year-old Mom never falls for these. She just deletes them.

@@jimroscovius that’s awesome she’s so savvy! I was of course speaking generally, not specifically in my prior comment.

@LisaG442 Oh, I get it. My Mom things it's so bad when she hangs up on someone. I tell her that's what she should do. She did get better with not answering the phone, though 🙂

It's not.

just some lawyers making noise.

They are trying to make it look like an elderly abuse, but they went to different branches to wire money and that too outside the country and that too thousands of dollars for a seemingly $2000 fake transaction. At some point they should have stopped to think that wiring money out of the country for fixing fake Amazon transaction is not making sense.

Just the attorney making up BS to try to get the money back.

The banks should provide more oversight. It’s not asking too much. An old person walks into a bank and wants to transfer a lot of money to foreign countries known for scams then the teller should ask more questions.

Yup. People always blame others for their own stupidity

It's NEVER the victim's fault. It's the thief's fault. It's the rapist's fault. It's the scammer's fault.

Why should any bank be held responsible for you being an idiot?

​@@eelnoops5200 A scammer can try all day long and get nobody. This is absolutely the old mans fault

@@eelnoops5200exactly.

Yes it is their fault, they have to monitor your transactions... Bank of America is very good for keeping up with my transactions. I really appreciate them... Chase sadly there just to collect your money...

That's just business, boomer. Pull the boot straps.

It's not soley the bank's fault but, in this day and age of technology banks have to step up and protect their customers so much better than this.

Exactly. But what makes this case particularly stands out in sheer ridiculousness is them sending out almost $700,000 dollars just to correct a $1,500 mistake...lol

@@almaguerra9371na dudes just an idiot

*loss

Having that much money in the bank doesn't mean Jack if it's handed away

Same generation who thinks the younger generation is weak bc they cant drive a manual. lmao

Agree. I'm 67 and I would never fall for such an obvious scam.

When u age....no telling what u will do

Our brain degenerates as we age, some faster than others so the thought process and decision making ability will not be the same. I'm already seeing it in my mother, she has forgotten how to use a simple calculator, repeats the same stories often and forgets things all the time.

I'm 70. My entire working life was done with computers and I "grew up" along with the technology. I don't understand the excuse of :"Oh, I'm old, I don't know anything about technology". I always wonder where these computer illiterate people have been. Unless you're 90+, there's no excuse.

EXACTLY. I got a similar email from Amazon saying my subscription had expired; but they are giving me three months free. When they asked me to pay .99 cents after saying it was free, I immediately called Amazon. Turn out it was a scam. How could anyone disburse huge sums of money without making a simple telephone call to the company involved. Stupid is as stupid does.

😂😂😂

apple has a scam calling feature in there phones were u can block scam callers it goes right to voicemail every time been doing this for a while now.i use to get tons and tons of calls of these losers a day and now since apple made this new features and they update the security I dont even see scam calls now.long term if apple and many other companies start to do these features it will be extremely harder for these scammers to happen .

Yup. Don't even have voicemail. Just Google the number after they call. If I'm expecting a call, I will turn my voicemail back on.

The name and number that shows up can be very easily manipulated. They can make any name and number appear on your caller ID hiding their actual number.

If I don't know the phone number or the name, I don't answer. If it is important, they will leave a message and then, I will decide whether or not to answer. Just use common sense.

The displayed number means nothing these days.

Especially he tried to scam Chase - he was wiring money from 4 different offices 4 times. Obviously not to raise suspicion

Sweet innocent minded people. 100% on them though for jumping every red flag. No one else’s fault.

An old fool and his money are soon parted.

I could understand how he fell for that. I mean...who could have foreseen that this was a scam?

​​​@@Flashyfinancier Yeah, it's like no one's heard of that one before, c'mon! There's certain scams that have been around before any one of us was born and yet people keep falling for what you would presume to be a completely well known scam.

@@wisdomlounge4452 the funniest thing must have been the ecstatic look on his dad's face when he wire transferred 5 grand to some random dude in China while he was patiently waiting for his million dollar payout. But after 3 or 4 days he must have thought...wait a second, what if they dont send me anything?

5k to get 1 million? You have to be a complete moron to fall for that one.

Yea

This is NOT their mistake made by their own! This is a SCAM! SCAMMERs exploit complicated/confusing systems to SCAM uninformed/old people. Blame such systems being shaddy/confusing unnecessarily for crooked to take advantage of, don't blame their victims!

@@Western_ENT Yes, it is their mistake. Learn how to take accountability for your own actions and if you don't want to get caught with your financial pants down, then educate yourself to not fall for evil people's bullshit. Nobody stuck a gun to their head to transfer money over - they did it on their own accord. CASE CLOSED!!!!

@@musicoldies83 you're exactly what's wrong with lawmakers these days, narcissism/psychpathy at its best: "nobody puts a gun in your head blah blah blah.." = you're defending SCAMMERs, CHEATERs, LIARs, and blaming their VICTIMs.

​@Western_ENT it's 100% their mistake

Stupid is stupid does. And he’s sueing the bank for his own stupidity. Now that’s America for you

It doesn't matter what new scams appear, they almost always have the same red flags, such as that one about sending money to get money. The other mistake made, also relevant when it comes to other scams, is not contacting Amazon directly. By directly, NOT the number provided by the scammer but by going to Amazon's site and looking for their contact them section. The daughter says it was a sophisticated scam but none of the things in the scam were unique tactics. The "let us have remote access to your computer" tactic was one he should have known about as being dangerous. In his line of work that's what he commonly does and his company would have surely briefed him about not giving authorized people remote access to their computer (which, by extension means he should have known that it would be a terrible idea to give someone he doesn't know remote access to his private computer.)

real talk~ *most Americans are not that smart- and the 'each & everything' scammers from the land of the Holy Cow know this*

If you are under 40 you have plenty of time to have $700K or more when you retire.

Thankfully my mom is far too cheap to send money to strangers. That’s how you accumulate wealth. 😂

@@user-gc4zy2sr2g Sometimes being cheap is actually being smart.

Seriously. I can’t wait for society to finally dump the idea that wealthy people are smarter than everybody else. Hopefully this video helps people see the truth. People this stupid don’t deserve to relax with $700k in their account while actual smart people are out here struggling to pay rent. It’s infuriating, meritocracy is such a scam

Never trust anyone with your money. Sad but these are the times we live in.

@@maryvernon6411 It has always been that way. It's not just the "times we live in".

A small town or suburb

@@moneyman24258Still no excuse. It happens everywhere.

Sounds like they both might have dementia???

Or reply to text or emails. If you didn't request it, reject it.

I do not answer the phone, text or email if I do not recognize the sender.

Especially about money. People are increasingly greedy for money and they don't care who they hurt to get it.

But not answering your phone? Dude, paranoia is your diagnosis.

​@@bambinaforever1402I'm a therapist and I NEVER answer if I don't recognize the number. They can leave a message if it's real. No way am I answering random calls. What is this?? 1974?? 🙄🙄

​@@bambinaforever1402Stop shaming people to do something they don't want to do

You are right. You can't even trust bank personnel anymore. Three times we have had inside jobs done by bank personnel! Accounts that were never used that only the bank had access to. Truly can't trust anyone you don't know and less than half of the ones you do know!

Why feel bad? It's a good learning experience for him.

​@@LexSteele-bo5qi😂

​@@LexSteele-bo5qiLol😂

How do they know people have money sitting around in savings.

@@english7451 It is the types of people banks etc hire and outsource to. Most are foreigners and they have access to your accounts, but they don't do it they sell your info directly to the scammers especially the elderly accounts.

Prison.

@@Justin-uc8sc no the old ppl should know how to manage there own money, or should not have access to it.

No you're not understanding the lawsuit, nothing is stopping you from wiring, it's the fact that Chase didn't bring up the possibility of scam, all they had to do was go over a simple checklist

@@JohnnytNaturalI agree with that. With the phone and email spoofing it’s getting pretty crazy.

No way should a bank be responsible. You’d start complaining banks are getting into your business or delaying your transaction once they put on procedures to slow things down. Anytime you have a transaction higher than a threshold, you should stop and think before completing it. Scammers are every where, it’s ridiculous to hold someone else responsible for your gullibility.

Hemingway said, " If you are any damn good at all, it's Always your fault!"

A fool and his money are soon parted.

RIght! Dude, all you had to do is back check your records. You would have easily figured out this is BS

@@Flashyfinancier It's "without" you donkey... lol

@@jcharich2010 without idiots, scamming would not exist as a profession

Tell your mom if she gets email her money were sent somewhere she did not send them she does not call the number, she GOES TO HER BANK with that email

Take away her PC.....TODAY.

​​@@user-tl7mj2bm4myou can't take things away from adult people. What are you even talking about? That's called THEFT

Do no yell at your mother! Always treat her with love and respect. You can still make your point very clear.

@@user-tl7mj2bm4m Are you crazy?? Your poor, poor parents. I can only hope you will learn not to treat elderly people like children!

Old people do.

If I were a bank employee and an elderly person came to me and asked to wire transfer a large sum of money overseas, I'd at least warn them that it could be a scam and advise against it. If they still insisted on with the transfer, I'd have them sign a paper saying that they were warned of the dangers and decided to ignore the warning. If it were clearly a known scam, I'd refuse the transfer.

@@kenbob1071 that's pretty straight forward - there's a lot of evil a-holes in this comment section... they're just EVAR so hard nosed, hey I'm impressed!

I thought I was the only one that has got a lot of those in the past...but I never responded cause I knew I ordered NOTHING on Amazon. But I did check my account to see if there was any funny business..and saw no such thing

The guy is ridiculous

In believable. Don't answer questions so If you didn't Make The call Plus I hate Banking on the Phone I Wld. Not give Ppl access to my computer Files or sine on And I can And Older Crazy 😧 sad😢

This is the generation that screwed up our nation 💯 unbridled optimism and no sense of reality

Nanny state? Are you even aware that the bank is a private corporation?

correct My friend was getting text from a very beautiful girl - he was super excited to have her as her girlfriend for a long time I did not want to 'break his bubble' and tell him she does not exist they are probably Nigerian scammers then one day he tells me that his remote girlfriend wants him to invest money in a Bitcoin project Then I had to tell him that it is scam do not talk to 'her' My friend though I am jealous and no longer talk to me as often as before Moral of the story -- there are people out there who would hate YOU for pointing out any scam - you can not protect them

It appears so. They couldn’t even tell the story themselves. My parents are elderly and I have talked to them about these scams. It’s definitely our duty as family to make them aware.

There goes the daughter's inheritance. 😂

No she should not get a conservatorship. She's just as stupid as the parents.

@@ryder4508 Yep. She was just as stupid as the parents.

😂😂😂

A fool and his money are soon parted.

You are absolutely correct. Sometimes people are not victims, they are volunteers.

They could have just took 5 minutes to look at their bank account to see the purchase was never made.

@@TOMVUTHEPIMP these are old people...

Right! How can I get ahold of these people? 😂

There need to be safeguards in place for elderly because it seems like some of this might be signs of early stage dementia or cognitive decline? Maybe adding a password or emergency contact/alerts to verify the transfer over certain amounts? I don’t know what they can do to save people from themselves but the scammers are stealing billions out from under these people.

That’s probably why the scammers had him go to multiple banks to do smaller transfer to lower suspicion. This man should’ve doubted the scammer when they had to coach him how to request the transfer

Frustrated? You're lucky you didn't lose 200k with the amount of sophisticated scams, with AI now able to mimic voices, your mother's voice could be a scammer asking you to wire money

@@JohnnytNatural If an AI mimicked my mom's voice I would say - "Mom, do I wire this to the Bank of Heaven. And what exactly do the dead do with money?" I work in AI. Nobody gets my money without lots of proof. I have wired my two sons about $275K in the last 6 months for some shared investments. AI is good, but it does not know their life story. Neither son does social media for AI to mine and I have lots of secret questions only we know the answer to.

The banks do have these signs and so does Western Union and MoneyGram, but idiots like him don’t read that shit. Banks and other entities also mail you and email you warning letters of common scams, but people don’t pay attention to that crap sadly. Then you have people like him that lack critical thinking skills severely and can’t see the scam for the pile of horseshit it is until their money is gone. Then folks like him blame their idiocy on everyone else but themselves.

It depends on what country you're in.

@@davidhoward4715Really? Are people in Nigeria getting scammed by Americans?

It's called fraud. Fraud is the intent to deceive.

Gullibility and greed will never be in short supply.

Hes old...

Exactly. If you are that stupid, you deserve to lose your money

There is no complexity here. It would have taken them two minutes to log into their Amazon account and see that they didn’t order anything. And we’ve all known for the past 20+ years that you can’t trust emails.

Boomers bought their house for 30K in 1974 and ran a "small, family owned business" where they paid their employees barely more than minimum wage and fired people for calling in sick.

It's called WORKING and SAVING since we were teenagers. It's also called investing, living within our means, and smart money management. It's also not having more kids than we can afford. Some people just love to buy unnecessary stuff and accumulate debt. 😢

@@Childfree334 you are completely missing the point here

@@Flashyfinancier I'm not missing anything. You asked how people accumulate that much money and I told you how, at least from my perspective. I am not as old as these people, but I am very careful with what I have built.

@@Childfree334 again, you are clearly missing the point

As a old 💩 i ask too many questions and note on paper ask to call back what’s the return number where they calling from i’ll look it up on google satellite . They hang up on my 😳🤣

After that they may wanna take a look at "banks never ask that".

There are stories of people going to news outlets for help and being successful. The problem here is they are going after their bank when the bank literally nothing to do with their problems outside of being their financial institution.

And getting an out of the blue email from Amazon for something that they never ordered???

I had to look up NPC. Now I understand.

I do not answer phone calls, texts or emails if I do not recognize the sender.

exactly.. Not the banks fault at all. It's their for being so dumb

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 RIGHT!

I can concur on that

Wrong. I’m even more skeptical now that I’m old than I was when I was young.

Thanks for the laugh!

I think they quit giving out toasters and other small appliances for opening new accounts back in the seventies 🤣🤣🤣

Exactly that’s what I did saw nothing was charged and I know it does not get charged until shipped a small but important detail.

I'm surprised they didn't blame Jeff Bezos

@@xXx....... Why would they blame Jess Bezos?

Calm down they lost 500k. I bet you don’t know that feeling.

ive lost $200k in the stock market in one hour. I think I can relate. but pay attention to what I wrote - I wasn't commenting on the loss but rather that they didnt take personal responsibility. do you think i blamed the stock broker that day, no I took personal responsibility and went forward. @@N8turenut

Lawyers do what their clients tell them.

They are older man. That's what these scammers like to deal with.

Elderly be dumb dumbs

To be fair, lots of people do and scammers are becoming more and more sophisticated

Well... His very first words were that he wouldn't have thought that someone could be that dishonest... Really... At his age he believes that everyone is honest... DOH!!!