In an effort to prevent others from falling victim to similar scams, Amelia shared some crucial advice: "Just so everyone knows, a bank would never, ever call you with no caller ID and a bank will never want you to move your money to make it safe.".
Amelia continued: "On a lot of bank apps, you can go into the 'help' section and it will say when your last call was and you know, if we would've known that at the time, we would have been able to see that our bank wasn't calling us.".
When she resumed, she explained the scam's mechanics: "Basically, to summarise how we fell for this scam; Pete got a call that said that our account was hacked and someone was trying to spend all of our savings.
Amelia Mandeville-Marinaro, an author and new mother, took to her popular TikTok account to share her unfortunate experience in the hope that others might avoid falling prey to similar telephone phishing scams.
So Pete followed the steps because the guy said he was gonna move our money into a safe bank account.".
