Nicole, a niza niza (France), at 62 he saw how his world collapsed after verifying that There was no trace of his retirement savings: He had been the victim of a carefully orchestrated telephone fraud. “I am ashamed,” repeats again and again, according to the newspaper ‘Nice-Matin’.
This woman had lost 550,000 euros that he had saved throughout his life to enjoy during his retirement. In fact, the majority of the economic amount came from the sale of a house that she had in common with her husband and that amounted to 400,000 euros. In addition, during the following months there are another three transfers that make it reach the total figure that, without knowing it, would never see again. Thus, Nicole decided to invest the money.
He did it by telephone with the BFORBANK entity, the online bank of Credit Agricole, since he made an offer that He offered a 4.20% yield“An interesting, but not surprising guy. If it had been 6%, it would have been cautious, ”says the victim. In this way, the retiree accepted. Subsequently, an alleged bank advisor contacted her and received the corresponding documentation from Bforbank, so they agreed to create a document in the name of each of them (his and that of her husband) and transfer 200,000 euros to each booklet .
Moment in which they realize that there is no trace of money
It is in the summer of 2024 when the daughter of marriage divorces and they want to help her, so they decide to recover part of the money invested months ago. What were not expected is that they never see that money again. The number of the ‘pseudoasesor’ “is no longer assigned,” says Nicole.
Then, they contacted Bforbank, from where they are told that there is an advisor with that name, but that never had them as clients. “There life collapses,” says the affected, who filed a complaint against those not identified, since They did not specifically know who the person was scammed, but they knew they were victims of fraud.
The Iban made the alarms jump
Nicole looks back and is able to remember that, during the process of completing the operation, the marriage went to the bank BNP Paribas, where her advisor received them and made the transfers, practically without flinching, as Nicole says . However, his lawyer said there was a series of things that should have caught attention when making transfers.
First of all, The Iban began by is, as in Spainwhile Bforbank is a French bank. And, second, only his name was shown, omitting his last names.
Now, Nicole claims that “BNP has a duty of surveillance. There should be controls, especially in view of the apparent anomalies ”, since he regrets having lost all the money saved for his retirement and not being able to help his daughter. And although he hopes to see his money again through a civil process, he says they have lost “everything.”