TLDR, I’ve been living abroad and haven’t checked my US bank account for a while. Just found out that someone drained all my money—$16,000 gone… Turns out this happened about 9 months ago.
Is there any chance I can recover the money, or is it too late? This is with Bank of America.
At this point, probably not, but you should still call BofA and have them investigate what happened. I’ve used online banking with them from different countries for years without any issues.
Timothy said:
At this point, probably not, but you should still call BofA and have them investigate what happened. I’ve used online banking with them from different countries for years without any issues.
Looks like someone hacked into my account. Do you think I can argue that it was fraud and get anything back?
@Devan
You can try, but banks usually have deadlines for reporting fraud, and 9 months is a long time. Also, if there was no unauthorized access and the login was legit, they might not consider it hacking.