How a financial-advice columnist got scammed out of $50,000

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  This is ncconversation from Apple News Today,

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  how a financial columnist got scammed out of $50,000 and ways to prevent that from happening to you.

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  Hi there.

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  I'm Julia Carpenter.

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  For the next month, I'm going to be sitting in for Shamita while she's out on maternity leave.

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  For a lot of my career, I've covered stories about money and personal finance.

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  Most recently, I worked at the Wall Street Journal, and a few months ago,

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  my first book, the New Rules of Money, hit bookshelves.

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  So that's what I'm going to be diving into for the next few weeks on this show,

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  all things personal finance and the different ways money impacts our lives.

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  And for the first episode, we're talking about scams.

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  Last year On Halloween, around 12:30pm, Charlotte Coles got a call.

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  My caller ID said Amazon.

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  Charlotte answered it, and at least at first, it seemed like a standard customer service call.

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  The woman who claimed to be from Amazon customer service was very professional.

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  She was saying, like, this call is being recorded for quality assurances.

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  How are you doing today?

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  We have this information about your account that we flagged and wanted to confirm this activity.

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  It seemed like unusual activity.

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  The woman asked Charlotte

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