Overview

• Noel Phillips says scammers spoofed Chase Bank’s customer-service number and urged him to transfer his life savings into fake accounts
• Chase Bank warned customers to ignore unsolicited requests to move money and has declined to reimburse Phillips for his $30,000 loss
• The Federal Trade Commission lists impersonation scams as the top-reported fraud and detectives are investigating Phillips’s case
• Kate Garraway avoided losing £8,000 when her bank froze a dubious transaction just before she joined Celebrity Traitors filming
• ITV has shut Good Morning Britain’s North America office and shifted U.S. reporting to ITN as part of a £15 million cost-cutting plan