Hacker News User Seeks Advice After Mother Loses All Savings to Phone Scam
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5mo ago· 3 min readenNews
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Summary
A person shares a devastating personal story on Hacker News about their mother being scammed out of all her savings. The scam involved a phone call where scammers posing as tax officials manipulated the mother into entering banking OTP codes, resulting in the complete loss of her life savings. The poster lives in a country near Cambodia, which they describe as a "dream land for scammers," and is seeking advice from the Hacker News community on what steps to take next.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledToday is the worst day of my life.
We live in a country near Cambodia, and as you know, it is kind of a dream land for scammers.
In just a few minutes, they tricked her and manipulated her into entering banking OTP codes.
All of her savings are now gone.
What makes this more dramatic is that it was her entire life savings.
Today is the worst day of my life. We live in a country near Cambodia, and as you know, it is kind of a dream land for scammers. Today, it happened to my family.
