Finance columnist goes viral after admitting to being scammed out of $50,000
by Meredith Clark
Feb 19, 2024
4 minutes
A financial columnist for New York Magazine has gone viral after she admitted to being scammed out of $50,000 from someone posing as a CIA agent.
Charlotte Cowles, a writer living in New York City, recently shared how she was conned into thinking she was the victim of identity theft in an essay published in The Cut on 15 February. The first-person essay, titled “The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger,” has since sparked much discourse online about scams.
Cowles began by explaining that she received a phone call from an Amazon customer service agent, who said there was fraud on her
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