according to a report from Your Central Valley.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nDelgado received a dubious text claiming to be from the stock trading app, Robinhood back in March. The message said her account had recorded some suspicious activity and asked her to call on a number to report the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The scammers made her move thousands of dollars from her Robinhood account. Instagram\/@alexdelgadotv<\/p>\n
Alex Delgado worked as a news anchor for 22 years in Fresno, California and left the news business in 2020. Instagram\/@alexdelgadotv<\/p>\n
Delgado didn\u2019t think much of it as she was preparing for a trip and made the call to the number mentioned, which turned out to be the biggest mistake of her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said, \u2018Not a problem, let me transfer you to the fraud department,\u2019 so it was very legit. It sounded very legit,\u201d Delgado said. <\/p>\n
Delgado shared her experience on Tiktok, calling it the Robinhood Scam. Tiktok\/@alexdelgadotv<\/p>\n
The fake representative on the call told her that her investment account was at risk as someone sitting in Asia, using an Android phone was trying to gain access.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to move that money into a different account while we conduct our investigation,\u201d the alleged fraudster told her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over the next two days, Delgado said the scammer guided her step-by-step to move the money over the phone. There were moments when she tried to get off the call, but the crook kept her hooked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
By the time she realized that thousands of dollars were wiped clean off her account, \u201cit was too late.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The former news anchor said she covered these frauds as a journalist and \u201cshould have been smarter about it.\u201d Instagram\/@alexdelgadotv<\/p>\n
The scammers told Delgado that her Robinhood account was being misused. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it can happen to me, and I am familiar with these, I covered it for the news, I hear about it all the time. It can happen to anyone,\u201d the former news anchor said. <\/p>\n
She tried to contact the legitimate Robinhood through their app but there was nothing they could do. Delgado has reported the fraud to multiple institutions but there is no sign of her money coming back anytime soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, don\u2019t trust anybody. Except your mother,\u201d warned Delgado. <\/p>\n
Fresno Police Detective Timothy Johnson advises people to watch out for red flags in initial interactions such as a manufactured sense of urgency or a caller refusing to end the conversation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings are looking more and more official when it comes to email and text messages that look legitimately coming from financial institutions or private businesses,\u201d Johnson said, reported by CBS47. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A veteran journalist, who spent 22 years of her career anchoring news, became the center of a scam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7,3130,112,114,113,26833,4182,11793,3586],"class_list":["post-388517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california","tag-fraud","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-investments","tag-metro","tag-robinhood","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}