Your homeowner's insurance may be helpful. Be sure you report this to the credit agencies and the FTC. The sting of the lost money hurts. You're going to be in for a lot of paperwork which hurts worse.
Scammers are gaining access to corporate emails and finding out who sends mail to whom and researching the writing styles. An employee receives email at work from his or her boss stating they must do a wire transfer.....how many would suspect the scammers were sending mail from within the network and who's going to call the boss and verify the mail was from that person.
It's getting tougher and tougher. Thanks for telling us and be good to yourself.
Teddmom.....you fell victim to a professional scammer with a network of people. As with many things in life, we can see the red flags afterwards. How many people checked out where the buttons on this page would take them?
Don't allow anyone to blame you for this. These scams have been perfected after thousands of tests. They also have hacked into the MSC's systems and downloaded names of shoppers, which is sold on the dark web. If we each checked out the html from every email and verified every email, checked the ip address every time, and double checked every offer, we would not have time to eat or sleep.
A friend nearly died when they received the wrong medication from the pharmacist. She had no reason to suspect. How many people verify the color/shape/and lettering on a pill to check up in case the pharmacist made an error? And ow many people have the capability to test a prescription if the pharmacy received counterfeit pills.
Blame the perpetrator, not the victim.