So Money episode 1704, Ask Farnush.

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Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farnoosh Terabi. How's everyone doing this Friday?

I'll tell you what's been on my money mind. I read an article recently written by a friend of mine

and a guest who's been on this show before.

She is a fellow financial writer.

Her name is Charlotte Kohles.

You may recall she has been on this show in the past talking about millennials and money and all the anxiety and fear that they have

She's a writer for the cut at New York magazine and also a contributor to the New York Times.

Well, she wrote a bombshell article that came out last week about how she became a victim of,

how she became the victim of a massive scam that essentially put her out of $50,000 and it all happened over the course of a day over the phone. She got a call, seemed like it was legit from

Amazon questioning some of her purchases and then fast forward, I'll let you read the

story, it's it is something. Fast forward she suddenly then on the

phone with who she thinks is the CIA or the FBI and they convinced her to go to the

bank and take out most of her life savings, put in a shoebox and hand it to a stranger.

And that is something she lived with for a while until she wrote about it and the internet went ablaze when she put this out there.

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