In an Overpayment Scam, Your Bank Could Be a Thief’s Best Friend

An unidentifiable person wearing a hoodie and sitting in a dark room works on a laptop.

If Southern California-based family nurse practitioner Joe Torres had read Fool Me Once by Kelly Richmond Pope, he and I would never have spoken. He also would not have lost thousands of dollars in an “overpayment” scam that began when his laptop screen froze while he was working with a patient.

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