While Bob Hartman acknowledges he was tricked, he says his bank didn’t do enough to protect him.
– when a con artist pretends to be an official from a company or government agency – were the third most common kind of complaint, making up 14% of reported scams.Hartman’s phone rang and the caller said he was a representative of Microsoft.
“In order for him to deposit the bonus, he asked for the name of my bank,” Hartman said, and he replied it was Bank of America. “He never asked me for my password or checking account number.” “I figured that since he represented Microsoft, he knew which Windows version I used and controlled the computer from his computer at Microsoft,” Hartman said.
“He said the accounting department wanted me to wire transfer the overage of US$28,000 to ‘The Microsoft Bank’ in Bangkok, Thailand,” he said. The fake Microsoft rep said he’d check back with Hartman the next day to make sure the transfer went through, and that’s when he stepped up the scam. Hartman said he was told to go to a different branch and to send the funds to a different bank in Thailand.
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