SCAMS

WaMu Helped Give Grandma
s Money to Crooks

WaMu Helped Give Grandma s Money to Crooks

s grandma was defrauded by crooks who exploited a weakness in the WaMu merchant check verification system. Essentially, in order to cash a charge on your account, all a vendor (or in this case, scammer) has to do is get you to record you saying your account number.