Shamgochian

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

According to plaintiff‟s complaint, in July 2010, “plaintiff was approached by persons who claimed that she had won a significant lottery contest.… Plaintiff was convinced by these scam artists that if she paid certain sums of money for legal fees and tax purposes, she would receive significantly large winnings. In order to participate, plaintiff was told she would be required to wire or transfer certain sums of money to these persons. Plaintiff, an elderly person, was convinced that this notification of winnings was legitimate, and proceeded to make efforts to forward these sums to the scam artists for the purposes stated by them.” She did so by several wire transfers of funds from her B of A and Wells Fargo accounts to the overseas accounts of the scam

2. artists, and by checks drawn on her B of A account, which transactions are briefly summarized below. Plaintiff’s B of A Account Plaintiff transferred $400,000 into her B of A account. She went to the Turlock, California, B of A branch and requested that the sum of $347,000 be wired from her account to the account of Ubs Pte. Ltd. at Dbs Bank in Singapore. On July 7, 2010, B of A carried out…