HONOLULU (KHON2) — A local business owner warns others to be on the lookout and check their bank accounts after she fell victim to scammers stealing tens of thousands of dollars from her.
Erica Lincoln owns Gymboree but was forced to cut down her staff to save some money after someone stole close to $40,000 from her business bank account last March.
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“I was on a trip to Mexico so it was a cruise ship and I didn’t have access to my bank account so I wasn’t able to monitor it,” said Erica Lincoln, theft victim. “When I got back, to make a long story short, checked my bank account and saw 50 something dollars left in my account.”
She disputed the charges with her bank for withdrawals of more than $2600 at a time until her account was empty.
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Lincoln said someone forged her signature on a bank transfer and when she called their number, it was someone foreign…