Officials said the prospective homeowner – a Hall County resident – sent the money after someone posed as her attorney. — Dreamstime/TNS
A Georgia homebuyer opened a fake email from her “attorney” – then lost more than US$155,000 (RM679,210) in a scam, officials said.
Instead of wiring the funds to an attorney who would be responsible for closing the sale of her house, the money landed in a woman’s bank account in 2021, according to investigators.
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