{"id":186096,"date":"2024-03-27T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/bank-of-america-ignored-text-but-answered-call-then-she-lost-18k-via-zelle"},"modified":"2024-03-27T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:22:27","slug":"bank-of-america-ignored-text-but-answered-call-then-she-lost-18k-via-zelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/bank-of-america-ignored-text-but-answered-call-then-she-lost-18k-via-zelle","title":{"rendered":"Bank of America ignored text but answered call \u2014 then she lost $18k via Zelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bank-of-america-ignored-text-but-answered-call-then-she-lost-18k-via-zelle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A BANK of America customer was deprived of $18,000 after she answered a call she thought was from the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lura Ball, of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/where\/california\/\" rel=\"\">California<\/a>, said she normally ignores strange texts or calls after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/topic\/scams-and-fraud\/\" rel=\"\">scammed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She lost thousands after being ordered to use the platform, Zelle, as reported by the ABC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/zelle-scam-electronic-withdrawals-bank-of-america\/11650620\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"KABC (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">KABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BANK of America customer was deprived of $18,000 after she answered a call she thought was from the company. Lura Ball, of California, said she normally ignores strange texts or calls after being scammed. She lost thousands after being ordered to use the platform, Zelle, as reported by the ABC affiliate KABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}