§ 01The brief
The client's daughter called me after finding wire receipts while helping with his taxes. He had sent 23 wires, mostly overseas, to a woman he believed worked on an offshore rig.
§ 02What I did
- 1.
Grouped the 23 wires by receiving bank and found four had gone to one US account.
- 2.
Sent the US bank a fraud notice with the full history, which led it to freeze the account as a likely money mule.
- 3.
Filed the CCS and FAE reports and helped the family set up account alerts.
§ 03The outcome
The US bank returned $260,000 from the frozen account. The overseas wires could not be recovered.