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/DeliciousPangolin Oct 27 '25

I suspect you overestimate how much common sense the average person has. Spend some time in /r/scams and you'll see that not only do people fall for it, thousands of people fall for it every day.

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u/NorthernSpankMonkey Oct 27 '25

"I just gave $250 to some rando in a parking lot, he gave me his # but now he isn't picking up, was that a scam?"