MIL in potential scam

[dojo]

Ok - don't know why I put potential in title, 90% sure she is doomed!!!

My MIL isn't the greatest with details, difficult to get hard straight fact out of her and I was relayed this by my wife who only spoke to her briefly on the phone but the jist of this potential scam is as follows.

Received call from Talk Talk (1st alarm bell) apparently her bill is two part - not sure if this is true, and something to do with security feature on one part meant she is due a refund of £250ish (2nd alarm bell). - I'm not sure if this was a separate call or a precursor.

Anyway £9k is transferred - they ask her if she'd received correct amount of money as they understand there was a mistake blah blah, (3rd alarm bell) basically she gets passed from pillar to post to supervisors to managers (so it must be legit) and in the end lets them 'scan' her computer i.e remote access surely??? Anyway somewhere down the line they convince her under the security guise to put her card into the little card reader fob for online banking and give them the security number-- (alarm alarm alarm).

My guess is she is fked!!

To make matter worse she flew out on holiday at 5am this morning! I mean is that just poetic for the scammers or what?!?!

Anything we can do this end!?! Or just sit and wait for the invertible chaos to ensue?

Any advice gratefully received

Thanks

[dojo]

I don't know - the 9k seems strange to me?!?! I can't make sense of it - unless it could have been called back or needed to be verified so if she hadn't have fell for it they could have retrieved it?

As I said some of the details will not be 100% as it is 3rd hand and could be a bit wooly.

So say they have access is it just a race to rinse the account or is it more subtle than that? Setting up small direct debits etc?

[dojo]

Justayellowbadge said:

The stolen 9k they transferred is clawed back. The £8750 she refunded them is her responsibility.

So if everything above is correct she's been done for best part of £9k - They won't be cleaning out anything else (pensions, other savings etc)

Edited by dojo on Friday 24th February 10:55

[dojo]

Bank have been notified by Sister in law and account is suspended (bank are watching for any new transactions). We will take computer in to shop on her return and get it stripped back and make sure there is no malware on there!
Guess we will see if anything really heavy has gone out but hopefully now everything is in the open if it does then it will be covered somewhat!