When classes returned my son makes a deposit to his bank on Alafaya and the very same day ( discovered after the fact) he gets a magic check For $1,400 . He then starts receiving threatening emails regarding this money ,which he knew nothing about, how they were going to harm him physically and call the cops for him stealing their money .
On that same day between pay pal and Zell there thousands of dollars of transactions. His account goes way into the red and since my wife is also on it we see all this has happened 48 hours after the fact . My son does tell me about the emails and the threats but per their instructions he deletes the emails. ( Side question, can those still be recovered at all?)
He reports it all to the bank as fraud and for over a month we have been trying to get to the bottom of it . My wife pushes him and says we are going to go to the mat for you against the bank and we need to know for certain about the Zell transactions . The pay pal ones the bank did determine were breaches into his account and they covered those..The Zell ones they said he did it because his login and password were used.
He finally says ,Mom, they were threatening me and I paid them. Before any of the skeptics say,well how do you know he wasn't scamming us ? I know because when I called him two days after this went down he was still noticably upset about something and he told me the threats part and was scared they would come after him still. Except he said then he didn't pay them .
Painful lesson learned here . If you have kids in college please share this story . My son works a summer job and we help him during the school year . He has a heart of gold and a genuine soul . He is a bit introverted in part because of his epilepsy. He is a country mouse In the city in many ways. They played my son like a fiddle and he fell for it.
On that same day between pay pal and Zell there thousands of dollars of transactions. His account goes way into the red and since my wife is also on it we see all this has happened 48 hours after the fact . My son does tell me about the emails and the threats but per their instructions he deletes the emails. ( Side question, can those still be recovered at all?)
He reports it all to the bank as fraud and for over a month we have been trying to get to the bottom of it . My wife pushes him and says we are going to go to the mat for you against the bank and we need to know for certain about the Zell transactions . The pay pal ones the bank did determine were breaches into his account and they covered those..The Zell ones they said he did it because his login and password were used.
He finally says ,Mom, they were threatening me and I paid them. Before any of the skeptics say,well how do you know he wasn't scamming us ? I know because when I called him two days after this went down he was still noticably upset about something and he told me the threats part and was scared they would come after him still. Except he said then he didn't pay them .
Painful lesson learned here . If you have kids in college please share this story . My son works a summer job and we help him during the school year . He has a heart of gold and a genuine soul . He is a bit introverted in part because of his epilepsy. He is a country mouse In the city in many ways. They played my son like a fiddle and he fell for it.
