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You got a time now for a go public segment reporter Kathy Tomlinson in Vancouver this week. Kathy has a story of an 86 years old woman, who’s the victim of the common fraud and now she’s asking why her bank didn’t protect her. What’s story here, Kathy?


Well, Madre Rican is 86 years old, she has 5 grandsons and she was the victim of what RCMP are now saying is one of the top 3 scams in Canada, the grandma scam. It’s started when she got a phone call from a young man saying: “Hi, grandma, it’s your favorite grandson.” She got flustered because she was trying to guess which one it was. She said a name, that give the scam artist in. He told her he was in trouble. He needed her to send money right way . He was in jail because some motor vehicle problem, he need money for a fine and money for his lawyer. She said she don’t have any money. He said: “Grandma, check your Visa Card, see what kind of limit you have it on there for me.” She checked her Visa Card and much to her Shark. She had 22,000 dollars in credit available. So on the scam artist’s instruction, she went off to her bank, walked into Royal Bank. Two days in a role, and made two 5000 cash withdraws on her visa card. She says there was no questions were asked and she wired the money to this person in Toronto who was getting in under a fake name. Now she’s upset with the bank because she went to the bank and said I was a victim of the scam, please help me. The Vancouver police also went back for her to the bank. But the bank said: No, I’m sorry, you gotta have to pay the debt.

So what’re they saying now, I mean Royal bank.

As the result of our inquire, now Madre’s been asked this through week trying to get an answer, and didn’t get anything. But does result of our inquires, Royal Bank says, first of all, it is send a not e out to all the staff across Canada saying look out for this grandparents scam, look out for elder customers who may needs some assistance. And also it’s decided to reach out Madre to forgive the interest on the Visa debt and perhaps negotiate her something to deal with the outstanding debt. So RBC is taking action on this.