{"id":3245,"date":"2026-07-12T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/cbs-matt-gutman-said-he-got-completely-scammed-by-fake-bank-fraud-investigator-scary-experience\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:41:12","slug":"cbs-matt-gutman-said-he-got-completely-scammed-by-fake-bank-fraud-investigator-scary-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/cbs-matt-gutman-said-he-got-completely-scammed-by-fake-bank-fraud-investigator-scary-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS\u2019 Matt Gutman Stated He Bought \u201cUtterly Scammed\u201d By Faux Financial institution Fraud Investigator: \u201cScary Expertise\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCBS Information journalist Matt Gutman revealed by way of social media that he was the goal of a telephone rip-off that just about had him emptying his checking account. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cA really scary expertise,\u201d mentioned Gutman. \u201cI\u2019m not as savvy as I feel I&#8217;m.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn his July 10 posts, Gutman defined {that a} caller shared a reputation and a badge ID earlier than saying somebody was attempting to illegally pull cash from his checking account. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThey appeared to know a lot about me, about my checking account,\u201d mentioned Gutman. \u201cAfter which they mentioned, \u2018Hear, we suspect that there&#8217;s vital fraud exercise on the financial institution department the place you financial institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGutman was instructed to go to his financial institution and withdraw all his money. However the caller additionally warned that he mustn&#8217;t clarify to the tellers what he was doing as a result of \u201cwe expect there are two fraudsters on the financial institution, they go by these aliases. She gave me the names.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBy withdrawing the money, the caller mentioned, \u201cthat can set off the fraudsters into motion. That\u2019s how we will catch them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGutman beelined to his financial institution however quickly realized how absurd it was that \u201canyone would use a daily civilian for a sting operation at a financial institution. I\u2019m a journalist and I&#8217;ve executed rip-off tales so many instances all through my profession and I got here so near falling for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGutman then imagined strolling out of the financial institution with 1000&#8217;s of {dollars} in money \u201cat a spot identified to these scammers as a result of they directed me to my native financial institution department and I used to be instructed this occurs on a regular basis they usually both rob your automotive or they rob you.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I simply acquired SCAMMED: a remarkably refined telephone rip-off that almost had me pull your entire entirety of funds out of 1 checking account. Watch to see the way it unfolded. And the way harmful it&#8217;d presumably have been. <\/p>\n<p>Big shout out to the @lapdhq and the parents on the @bankofamerica\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/y17xohZcBz<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Gutman (@CBSMATTGUTMAN) July 10, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGutman then posted a subsequent message on July 11 saying he ought to have known as the quantity on the again of his financial institution card. He admitted that he spent \u201cover an hour\u201d on the telephone with the fraudster.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How NOT to fall for a &#8220;financial institution impersonation rip-off.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Three fast suggestions that might save your checking account and on the very least, lots of time. <\/p>\n<p>Learn did not lose cash yesterday after I was the goal of a classy and really affected person scammer however I misplaced time and it value me lots of\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/eGe7Tpk0xs<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Gutman (@CBSMATTGUTMAN) July 11, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGutman joined CBS Information in January. He&#8217;s primarily based in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/cbs-matt-gutman-scammed-fake-bank-fraud-investigator-1236980003\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Information journalist Matt Gutman revealed by way of social media that he was the goal of a telephone rip-off that just about had him emptying his checking account. \u201cA really scary expertise,\u201d mentioned Gutman. \u201cI\u2019m not as savvy as I feel I&#8217;m.\u201d In his July 10 posts, Gutman defined {that a} caller shared a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":3247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2246112484.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3895,596,3851,1964,3894,3352,3892,3896,1493,3893,84],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bank","tag-cbs","tag-completely","tag-experience","tag-fake","tag-fraud","tag-gutman","tag-investigator","tag-matt","tag-scammed","tag-scary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}