A trio of financial giants are accused of negligence after an 86-year-old woman lost her six-figure life savings to a pop-up scam.
86-year-old New York resident Nina Mortellito is suing banking titans Merrill Lynch, UBS Financial and TD Bank, alleging that the companies were negligent when she lost her life savings of $700,000.
Mortellito was first scammed when a pop up appeared on her computer, informing her that her bank accounts were going to be hacked, reports Forbes.
She was then persuaded by bad actors to make large withdrawals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from the three firms between 2023 and 2024 and instructed to send them to a Texas gold trader for safekeeping.
After Mortellito lost her funds, she sued the banks alleging
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