After getting a text message claiming to be a voicemail from her doctor, an elderly stroke survivor was conned out of $7,000.
Gayle Arnott, 65, was hospitalized in 2020 due to a brain bleed and stroke; she passed away and required three attempts at resuscitation before spending three months in the hospital during the pandemic.
The Peterborough, South Australia, lady went in for a routine blood test and checkup in April of this year. A few days later, she received a text message claiming to have a voicemail from her expert in a link.
Gayle received a ton of calls after following the link in the message over the next few days before realizing $7k was gone from her account.
James, her husband, told Nine that his wife “felt she had better listen to the message, since it might be something severe.”
Her health scare “came as a bit of a shock.” While she was in the hospital, she passed away three times on me. We therefore handle medical issues as urgent whenever they arise.
After clicking the link that claimed to have the voicemail, nothing happened right away, but the next day Gayle and James started getting a lot of irate calls.
They were odd phone calls from people who said, “Oh, you rang me? What were you after? said James.
Then, she started receiving messages filled with all different kinds of superlatives. We realized it had to have been from tapping on that link at that point.
After receiving the barrage of calls, the couple, who had just recently…
