Ontario woman loses $3,000 trying to online bank
CTV
An Ontario woman who planned to do some online banking during a lunch break said she was shocked to find out she was scammed out of $3,000.
An Ontario woman who planned to do some online banking during a lunch break said she was shocked to find out she was scammed out of $3,000.
"This website looked identical to the Bank of Montreal. I mean identical," Bruna Capretta, of Hamilton, Ont., told CTV News Toronto.
One day at work back in June this year, Capretta said she logged onto a company computer to Google the name of her bank, and what appeared to be her bank's official website popped up.
"I opened up Google, I typed in Bank of Montreal, and it took me right to it, the BMO.com website, or what I thought was the BMO website," said Capretta.
Capretta set up her account to receive a one-time passcode when she signed in. When she received an emailed code, she entered it -- but she said hackers immediately took over her bank account.
"As soon as I put in that passcode, I literally just blinked, and $3,000 was gone from my account," said Capretta.
Scammers used an e-transfer to send themselves the $3,000. The fraudulent website was made to look exactly like her bank's web sign-in page.
