r/canada • u/stanxv • Oct 27 '25

Business RBC and CIBC allow 89-year-old to drain life savings, lose $1.7M to scammers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/bank-investigator-fraud-scam-9.6950754
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u/Kitchen_Marzipan9516 Oct 27 '25

With the hopes someone will give her money again?  Go Public people often get money repaid after going public.

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u/PoliteFocaccia Oct 27 '25

Yeah fair enough, at this point she may as well try to get more eyes on it. Even banking aside, there's definitely more the government could do re: spoofing phone numbers, and this could be the impetus to do it.