Targeted by bank scam
Throwaway account
Location: MA
So this past Saturday I was nearly taken for over 100k by someone posing to be a fraud investigator from the FDIC. It started as a normal fraud alert from my bank and snowballed into this big inside job at my local bank branch where an employee was leaking customers bank info.
Recounting the story back is quite painful the things he managed to pull over on me in the moment. During this whole debacle he had me start a Kraken account and fund it with a digital debit card number that was supposedly mine (it was not). He then had me buy 15K worth of bitcoin (I know, I’m an idiot looking back, it makes me sick) and then tried to send it to a BTC wallet he claimed was now mine.
Shortly after this is when it fell apart and we hung up, called our banks, changed passwords, ordered new cards and locked our credit.
My concern now is that I am in possession of someone else’s $15,000 in that kraken account because after looking over all of our funds, it did not come from us. What do I do here?
I have contacted and filed reports with the FTC, FBI, local law enforcement and reached out to kraken support.