FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — A Fayetteville woman is dealing with more than $60,000 worth of credit card charges, she says this happened after she got caught up in a job scam.
What started as innocent texting, quickly grew into an online love connection for Rebecca Adami, and then to a job opportunity.
Adami says, “He knew I wanted the job, so he put me in touch with this man.”
A man who Adami says emailed her paperwork that claims the job oversees the finances for a charity. She got the job and it required her to open up new bank accounts.
“I set up a bank checking and savings in my name, but a separate one to keep their money straight.” Adami says she shared all of her bank and credit card numbers with the man who she thought was her boss.
“He had all my information, so he started charging on all my cards. Any equipment, anything shipped here, it would be shipped here. Then I would ship it overseas.”
With all of these purchases, Adami’s credit card charges were in the thousands of dollars and demanded the charges be paid off in full by the charity. She says payment was made on her credit cards that zeroed out the balances, but days later she says her boss made more charges on her credit card, and then the payments that were made, were reversed so she owed even more money to her credit card companies.
In all, Adami says all of her credit cards are maxed out to more than $60,000.
Adami says she was also sent checks made out to her, one for $32,000 and another for $35,000. She…
