A St. Catherine resident is worried about how she’ll cover her son’s back-to-school expenses after fraudulently losing over $1.5 million from her National Commercial Bank, NCB, account.
The woman recounted the ordeal in a tearful interview to Nationwide News on Tuesday.
Mahiri Stewart has that story.
The woman, a waitress from St. Catherine, says she went to an NCB branch in July to draw money from her account.
But she was shocked to find that her account with more than $1.5 million was now empty.
Documents she provided to Nationwide News revealed that as early as March this year, purchases from online shopping companies such as Temu, Ali Express and DHGate were being made from the woman’s account.
The purchases ranged from as low as $500 to as high as $70,000.
As Nationwide News scanned the documents, one could see the funds in the account go from over 1.5 million in mid-March to 0 dollars by May 14.
She told our news centre that the money in the account was intended to cover her son’s back-to-school expenses.
The woman explains that the NCB account is in the name of her and her son.
The woman has since reported the fraud to both NCB and the JCF’s Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch, CTOC.
