NBC CT Responds helps recover $11K an Avon couple lost in a fake website scam

NBC CT Responds helps recover $11K an Avon couple lost in a fake website scam

It took mere seconds for scammers to steal $19,000 from Donna Safer’s Treasury Direct account. It happened when her husband tried to go on the government website. “He went onto Google, and he put in Treasury Direct, and he clicked on [the] first thing that came up,” Donna Safer, from Avon, said. Safer said he typed in their username and password, unaware that it was a fake Treasury Direct website. “Almost immediately he saw that there was a fict…