You have the right take. That was a scary read, because I could see how that manipulation was so powerful. There was a recent article in the WaPo about this happening to someone who had been a govt scientist. It's very tempting to say I'm financially literate, I'd never do this. But there are lots of scams, one could hit you one day.
The one thing I thought about in this article was that the bank is supposed to ask you those safety questions: why are you doing this, are you in trouble, this might be a scam, what will the money be used for. That might have pulled her out of this mistake. In the WaPo scenario the bank asked the victim those questions and she was told to lie and she did lie to them and lost even more money than this person.
The one thing I thought about in this article was that the bank is supposed to ask you those safety questions: why are you doing this, are you in trouble, this might be a scam, what will the money be used for. That might have pulled her out of this mistake. In the WaPo scenario the bank asked the victim those questions and she was told to lie and she did lie to them and lost even more money than this person.