Hey all, First time posting on PF long time reader although, I never signed up. I'm posting this to see help for my wife in steps we need to take when someone scams you for all your life savings. She was a victim yesterday March 29 to the IRS scam. They pretended to be the IRS, Local Law Enforcement, even her own bank. They threatened her with jail time and arresting her if she did not meet any of the demands. She was not allowed to speak to anyone because it was "considered a crime to discuss federal investigation" I was not brought into the equation till after the fact of what had happened. She lost everything to a Bitcoin ATM where she deposited everything. All we have now is Chase Bank receipts from all her withdrawals and a big fat $0 in both the banking and savings.
We cancelled all our credit cards, froze our bank account, called one of the 3 major credit bureaus, we are in the process of closing that bank account and opening up a different one. She is an emotional mess ATM and we are at a loss any help that any of you would recommend we will be grateful for. If there is a step we missed or if anyone has gone through something like this. Please share some insight we will be forever in your debt.
Thank you fellow PF redditors.
Submitted March 30, 2018 at 02:41PM by AwesomesAdrian https://ift.tt/2GYUYyK
