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(Gray News) – CBS News journalist Matt Gutman revealed that he almost withdrew thousands of dollars in savings after falling for a phone scam in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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In a video posted on X, Gutman said he came very close to emptying his account after he received a phone call from someone claiming to be from the fraud protection department at his bank.<\/p>\n

Gutman explained that the caller shared a name and a badge ID before saying someone was trying to illegally pull money from his bank account. He admitted that he spent \u201cover an hour\u201d on the phone with the fraudster.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey seemed to know so much about me, about my bank account,\u201d said Gutman. \u201cAnd then they said, \u2018Listen, we suspect that there is significant fraud activity at the bank branch where you bank.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

He said in the clip that they went through all of the accounts and actually had some suspicious activity recently in his daughter\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen she said, \u2018What we need you to do in order to intercept these fraudsters is to go into the bank and withdraw everything from your bank account,\u2019\u201d which he said wasn\u2019t that much money at this point.<\/p>\n

By withdrawing the cash, the caller said, \u201cThat will trigger the fraudsters into action. That\u2019s how we will be able to catch them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gutman started to catch on and thought the plan was \u201ca little weird,\u201d but still went to his local bank.<\/p>\n

But the caller also warned that he should not explain to the tellers what he was doing because there were allegedly two fraudsters at the bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I go to the teller and I start doing the thing and I\u2019m like, there is no way this is possibly real, that anybody would use a regular civilian for a sting operation at a bank,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The final instruction from the woman set off alarm bells and he realized the call was not real.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most scary and the dangerous part is that I would have been walking around with thousands of dollars in cash at a place known to those scammers because they directed me to my local bank branch,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I was told that this happens all the time. And then they either rob your car or they rob you.\u201d<\/p>\n

He described the ordeal as a \u201cvery scary experience\u201d and told others to be careful even if they consider themselves savvy.<\/p>\n

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