![]() After all, each one said "You sent $2,500 to Eduardo Carrascosa" and "You sent $1,000 to Eduardo Carrascosa." ![]() Two receipts seemed to show he sent himself $2,500, then $1,000. "I got nervous and the guy said don't worry it'll come back in an hour," he said.Ĭarrascosa says he felt sick. Immediately, the balance on his account plummeted. First, he sent $2,500 ostensibly to himself. RELATED: Fake renter scams now taking advantage of Zelle to receive money from victims "But I also thought, well, if I'm the recipient, what's the worst that can happen?" I thought about hanging up," Carrascosa recalled. The man told Carrascosa to type his own name and cellphone number as a recipient in his own Zelle account, so he could then send that $3,500 back to himself. "I was gonna do what they told me, you know." But at that point, I was already trapped," because they had so much information about him, he said. ![]() Which these imposters were about to do to Carrascosa. Critics say that single factor, plus the speed of the transfers, and the fact they can't be reversed, make it too easy for scammers to steal money with Zelle. Zelle works by registering either a phone number or email to receive money in an instant. The irony was, that was exactly what the imposters themselves were about to do. ![]()
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