Posted on 07/21/2024 6:34:01 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
CHICAGO—It’s the hottest scam going, one that everyone would be well-advised to keep in mind as they wander the streets of Chicago: fake charity solicitors and “homeless” people commandeer phones and transfer large sums of money to themselves using the victims’ electronic banking apps.
We’ve told you about the scam and some people who’ve allegedly been caught running it, usually in tourist areas like the Mag Mile and Millennium Park or nightlife districts like Wrigleyville and the Gold Coast.
Just yesterday morning, two men asked a couple for a donation near Crown Fountain at Millennium Park. The victims reluctantly agreed to let one of the thieves transfer a dollar to himself. But, after taking control of the phone, the scammer transferred $2,400 out of the victim’s account and fled, a CPD report said.
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This level of stupidity ain’t cheap
Hand me your wallet, and I will take $1 from it.
What a bargain! They got a degree from the School of Hard Knocks at only three grand? Cheap graduate in a useful subject.
My wife and I got shaken down like this 40 years ago in a downtown Palo Alto parking lot at night. Two large, menacing black men asked for $20. We gave it to them. No tech needed back then.
I gotta say, anyone that would hand a phone with open bank app to a stranger deserves anything they get (or lose).
Stupidity should be painful.
Why would you ever surrender physical control of your phone, so that a street Bum could transfer money to himself?
Just say No!
My bank app requires me to enter my password.
https://rumble.com/v57qh1v-a-thief-in-so-paulo-brazil-gets-hit-by-a-bus-after-snatching-a-phone-from-a.html
A thief in São Paulo, Brazil gets hit by a bus after snatching a phone from an elderly man
Sure, but you didn’t hand them your wallet expecting they’d just take a 20 and hand it back.
My phones do NOT have anything related to money loaded on them [as far as I know anyway].
Wow! Talk about poetic justice,
Or
Being Thrown Under the Bus by Fate.
Lol…good point.
no one, no where *could* transfer anything from my dumb phone.
Hi, I’m a homeless street bum with nothing to my name. Can you use your cell phone banking app to transfer some money to mine?
I don’t have a “phone”.
Apparently, that worked, and morevthan a couple of times.
The phone owner must have been afraid to say no, or didn’t want to be called negative, ugly names by a Doper.
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