Financial advice columnist admits to giving scammers $50,000 in a shoe box

Financial advice columnist admits to giving scammers $50,000 in a shoe box

"He told me my home was being watched, my laptop had been hacked, and we were in imminent danger."

Finance columnist flabbergasted after she fell for Amazon scam that cost her $50,000 in savings

A financial advice columnist shared her horror story of being conned out of $50,000 in an elaborate Amazon scheme, warning readers these scams could happen to anyone."When I’ve told people this story, most of them say the same thing: You don’t seem like the type of person this would happen to. What they mean is that I’m not senile, or hysterical, or a rube. But these stereotypes are actually false," Charlotte Cowles, a financial columnist for Ne…

‘Financial Advice’ Columnist Admits She Fell For Scam That Cost Her $50,000

Sports gambler holding money in Las Vegas One would typically not expect a financial advice columnist to fall for a money scam, nor that they would publicly air the misjudgment, but that’s exactly what The Cut’s Charlotte Cowles did on Thursday. “The day I put $50,000 in a shoe box and handed it to a stranger I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam,” Cowles wrote at the top of the column. Cowles detailed the wild scam which e…