It began with an email claiming to be from PayPal with a payment request, and ended with years of savings lost. 9News
"The people were telling me on the phone there were multiple fraudulent transactions and I had to go through a series of steps to get rid of those transactions."
In less than two hours the scammer, who was in Perth, spent more than $100,000 in India and Kuwait using Ben and Jessica's debit card details linked to their offset account.READ MORE:They don't know how the criminal accessed their account but once in, they transferred $55,0000 from their home loan account into their offset - which has no spending limit - maximising the amount they could steal.
Macquarie Bank also informed the couple their money can't be retrieved because they provided the scammer with the one-time passcodes.
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