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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Stephanie Cruz

Woman Loses $117K in Fake Wells Fargo Scam as Husband Enters Hospice: 'Everything I Had Is Gone'

Charlotte Tripp at her husband's hospice bedside. The fraud wiped out the money meant to carry her through widowhood. (Credit: Charlotte's GoFundMe page)

Charlotte Tripp was caring for her husband of 17 yearsm who has dementia and had just entered hospice care, when a phone call cost her almost everything. The Pierce County, Washington, resident says she lost about $117,000 (£87,000) to a caller posing as Wells Fargo fraud department, wiping out the savings she had counted on for the years ahead.

'Everything they took was what I was going to live on for the rest of my life,' Tripp told FOX 13 Seattle.

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