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Support Jake After a Devastating financial Scam

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What happened:
Recently I got scammed and or hacked and it was scary how elaborate and well executed the scam was.. first I noticed fraud charges on my account, and when I ordered a new debit card there were more of these charges before I even got the physical card.. and the amount they would try to withdraw/use correlated weirdly with the amount I had in my bank account (I had 240 and they tried for 120, then I had 1700 and they tried for 1500) so I reported this to Wells Fargo and they told me there was indeed a phone other than mine that had access to my digital wallet, so the bank said they were kicking that other phone off by verifying a code.. then a day or two later is when I got the attempt for 1500 from what I thought was Wells Fargo (looked exactly the same) I responded N for no it was not me and I got a text back immediately saying a fraud specialist would reach out to me shortly, (Which he definitely was, just not the kind I thought.) they called with a Wells Fargo number and they had an entire script that sounded so professional and official, they said the same exact thing the real WF had said, that there were other devices that had access to my digital wallet and that they were kicking them off, and asking me to verify two different codes to kick both of the intruders off (I’m still not sure what exactly the codes actually did, obviously granting them some sort of access to something) they said in order to permanently stop this from happening I needed to transfer my entire balance to my apple wallet, so they could reset the security on the account. When I transferred 5200 (the maximum I could )out of the total 5600 I had to my name.. all the money I’ve been working so hard for, saving as much as I could for the passed couple years, then my phone rebooted and they immediately changed the password and phone number associated to my iCloud. Then they the set an authentication key. Because of that apple told me there’s absolutely no way for me to regain access to my account.. I called WF immediately after it happened, went in Person to a branch and they told me they were going to conduct their investigation which could take up to ten business days.. they told me I shouldn’t make a police report until they’re finished with that. I kept checking on my claim every couple of days until they told me that because I did indeed authorize the transfer to my own apple wallet that they will not refund the 5200. Like I said their whole scheme was very elaborate and seems to me like someone’s feeding them inside information at the very least. I normally wouldn’t fall for something like this but They caught me at the worst possible time. looking back I feel so stupid to have let this happen to me. This is also a warning to anyone to be very careful.. these scammers/hackers are getting REALLY good. all I had to do was verify two codes, make sure everything was in my checking and they were able to take almost EVERYTHING. This is a truly devastating set back and needless to say I'm really drowning financially I was on a payment plan to pay off some repairs to my car and I wasn’t able to meet the deadline so now I owe a lot more on that, and all the bills I had on autopay actually weren’t getting paid since the first card got replaced so I’m even more behind than I thought. most importantly I’m just trying to be able to pay my bills. I had been trying so hard to save there were things I hadn’t done yet that I really need to do like getting some dental work done, having intermittent pain on both sides.. groceries etc. Not expecting to recuperate the full amount I lost, that would be great but I’m mostly just trying to get by. I just started a new job so Ill have a check in 3 weeks which will give me some room to breathe.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read and consider helping. Any amount you could donate I would be truly grateful for. And if you can’t help that’s okay, but even sharing this on Facebook or any other social media would help me as well..
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    Jacob Schuman
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    Fort Lauderdale, FL

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