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The Ramsey Show Highlights

I'm Panicking After Getting Scammed Out of $8,000

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Investing, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.5838 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today basically me and my husband

0:08.0

we um someone got in our bank account and we lost 8,000 and so we just have a few questions of should we

0:15.8

continue trying to pay off our house in 10 years but we also need to buy a new car soon because

0:20.7

his car's about

0:21.4

to die. A baby's due in July, and other appliances in the house are about to die, and we need a new

0:28.3

roof. Our pets' heads are falling off. Everything's happening. All right. So let's back that thing up a

0:35.0

a little bit. Okay, so what happened in your bank account?

0:39.3

Someone bought into it and took $8,000.

0:41.7

So hopefully we'll maybe get it back that we highly doubt that we'll get any back.

0:46.1

Why?

0:46.6

Why is your bank not covering it as fraud?

0:50.7

I'm not really sure they're disputing it, but we don't know.

0:55.0

So we won't do anything for 30 days.

0:57.0

But how did somebody get in it?

0:58.0

One of them made a mistake and might have given someone who he thought was the bank

1:04.0

to his account.

1:06.0

So they were able to...

1:08.0

So it was a scam.

1:10.0

But I mean, if that happened, they should be, they'll be on camera. So they were able to... So it was a scam.

1:14.4

But I mean, if that happened, they should be... They'll be on camera coming into the bank, or there'll be a record of the transaction.

1:20.1

Like, everything is reported.

1:21.2

Yeah, we have the records and police reports and all of that.

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