We all like to think we're too smart to fall for a scam, like the kind where someone tricks you over the phone into liquidating your bank account, putting the cash in a shoebox, and handing it to a stranger in a car. And hopefully, you are!But the truth is, people get scammed all the time — even smart people.
New York Magazine published an astonishing personal essay from one of their writers who says she was the victim of a phone scam that bilked her out of $50,000 by convincing her that she was a victim of identity fraud and that to fix it she would need to transfer money.That's selling it short — the details of the scam are SO MUCH more wild.
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