Tonight, we're continuing our discussion about how sophisticated online hackers and internet scammers are targeting smart, hardworking Americans to steal their money and their identities. Now, you know, you can look at some of this and think, you know, how can somebody be so gullible?

I think after hearing the story that we covered just last night, you realize you don't have to be gullible.

These scammers are sophisticated.

You just wonder how successful they could be if they got legitimate jobs, if they use those skills and abilities in the right way.

Last night, we met married couple of 51 years, Mike and Roxanne, who say they were conned out of their entire

life savings, over a million dollars by scammers. Mike, you were on the internet shopping

for a book, right?

We were going to go on a vacation, and so I needed to take something with me, and I went

to this website and immediately had a pop

up on my computer and it was an ominous looking pop-up.

It was very bright, very colorful.

It said warning, your computer has been compromised.

You need to call a particular number that was given on the screen.

And I know enough be very wary of that,

but I could do nothing. The computer was locked. At that point, the actors actually told us,

okay, yes, your computer has been hacked, and it's locked. We can help that, but there's something

else that may be of more concern to you.

Your financial institutions possibly would need to be notified that there's a potential

scam and process.

They were very reassuring and they were very methodical in how they addressed it.

So this is critical as part of the scam.

They said, just go call your bank. And we can see that on our phone logs that we did in fact connect with that number. As it turns out, we now know you weren't talking to the bank. Correct. Somehow they intercepted the phone call. But then something did happen that rings a bell with me in dealing with scammers and abusers.

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