by Asia Grace at New York Post
Noel Phillips can’t believe he was cleaned out so quickly — and easily.
The New York millennial was bled dry earlier this year by a group of business imposter scammers who used phone number spoofing technology — software used to misleadingly alter caller ID information — to empty his bank account, taking all of his life savings, totaling nearly $30,000.
“It’s devastating,” Phillips, 33, a journalist and an NYC transplant from London, exclusively told The Post. “I can still hear the voices of the people who called me, posing as employees of Chase Bank, claiming there had been fraudulent activity on my account.
“They used fear tactics to basically hypnotize me into handing over all the money I’d worked so hard to earn and save over the last four years.”
Deborah Moss, a 65-year-old caretaker from Northern California, was previously thunderstruck by a similar wave of devastation when an imposter scammer targeted her, draining her Chase account of a shocking $162,000 in 2020…
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