According to reports, a customer of an American bank worth billions says that scammers have stolen the money from a small business loan she just received.
Lele Ewah is a Houston small business owner who says that the scam began with a phone call by a woman pretending to be an official of Prosperity Bank where she holds her account.
The woman identified as Erica, and she referred to her travel habits.
She asked: “Are both you and your spouse out of the city?” “You always set up travel notifications. It sounded real.”
Ewah claims that the woman told her she needed to confirm certain details to “secure her account” and reset her access to online banking. Ewah gave her scammer unknowingly access to the account by doing this.
Later that day she realised two transfers of $20,000 each were being made into internal accounts in the same bank. This was the amount of money Ewah got from a business loan for repairs and marketing of her shop, Power of Sea Moss.
I was devastated. Every dollar counts for small businesses. “I felt as if I could not breathe.”
She claims that the bank only refunded $12,000 of the money she was told it would recover, because the funds were transferred to another account.
We borrowed money to pay for something, but now it’s gone. This doesn’t solve the problem .”
Prosperity bank is an $8.765 billion regional holding company with branches in Texas and Oklahoma.
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