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we are back with an Oklahoma's
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cautionary tale concerning online tech
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scams uh he's now almost out
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$20,000 after giving personal
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information to someone he thought was
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Best Buy's Geek Squad here's news for's
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story then I believed that I made a
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mistake but by that point it was too
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late for ASA christna morthy he was
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scammed out of almost $20,000 back in
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March of this year I could see on my
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bank account he got this email from
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someone posing his Best Buy's tech
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support team known as Geek Squad it was
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for a nearly $350 extended warranty he
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had his secretary call them and she was
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on the phone for over 30 minutes I was
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taking care of my stuff in the office
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then she called me and asked me
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to she was on the computer and she asked
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me to log into my bank account not
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knowing the scope of the situation he
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did but at that point the hacker had
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access to his computer and from there
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they appeared to put money in his
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account saying it was a refund only to
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claim they made a mistake pulled it back
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out along with well over $199,000 of his
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money they even started asking for more
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he was asking me whether I have like
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Bitcoin or something then I realized it
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was a scam and we disconnected the phone
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I called the bank right away however he
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hasn't been able to get much help
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despite filing this this report with the
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FBI showing the amount of money taken
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and where it went which was a bank in
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Hong Kong unfortunately it's something
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his accountant says they see often a lot
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and this and especially in the Cyber day
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and age and you know it's it's pretty
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prevalent Hillary DP has been doing this
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for 20 plus years and has seen it all
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one restaurant was put out of business
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and for this one she and her client are
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hoping for some recourse Austin Bret
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Oklahoma's News 4 well Al was hoping his
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story prevents others from getting
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scammed like he did there are some
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precautions you can take like not
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opening emails from someone you don't
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know other red flags watch for spelling
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and grammatical mistakes both in the
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email address and the message itself
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beware of suspicious attachments or
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links too also scammers will often try
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to frighten their potential victim
