“I didn’t have another million dollars, that was my million dollars.”
”One million dollars, an overwhelming majority of Ross’ life savings, and the money for his daughter’s education, was all gone in less than one hour, after the hacker converted it all to bitcoin, and withdrew it.“It’s like the wind getting knocked out of you, but your body doesn’t recover,” Ross said. “I went to the Apple Store to figure out what was going on with his phone, and they called AT&T and determined there was an unauthorized SIM change in my account, and they got me a new SIM card and activated it, but by that time, all my money was already gone. Moments later, his phone displayed “no service” from AT&T, and his laptop showed his Gmail account suddenly logged out.“So between those three things together, I realized something was way off, and I was being hacked,” Ross said.
“My heart was pumping a lot, fear, deer in the headlights.” It began when Ross says his phone began showing notifications for a withdrawal request on one of his financial accounts, a request he never made. They can change passwords, lock the victim out of their own lives, and even empty out financial accounts, which is exactly what happened to Robert Ross on October 26, 2018.
