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+type: link
+date: 2024-07-06 18:00:00 -0700
+title: "How I Fell for an Amazon Scam Call and Handed Over $50,000"
+link: https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html
+permalink: /post/2024/07/06/scam-call
+categories: 
+- scam
+- finance
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+<blockquote><p>Scam victims tend to be single, lonely, and economically insecure with low financial literacy. I am none of those things. I’m closer to the opposite. I’m a journalist who had a weekly column in the “Business” section of the New York Times. I’ve written a personal-finance column for this magazine for the past seven years. I interview money experts all the time and take their advice seriously. I’m married and talk to my friends, family, and colleagues every day.</p>
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+<p>And while this is harder to quantify — how do I even put it? — I’m not someone who loses her head. My mother-in-law has described me as even-keeled; my own mom has called me “maddeningly rational.” I am listed as an emergency contact for several friends — and their kids. I vote, floss, cook, and exercise. In other words, I’m not a person who panics under pressure and falls for a conspiracy involving drug smuggling, money laundering, and CIA officers at my door. Until, suddenly, I was.</p></blockquote>