'Hi Mum' phone scam costs parents $2 million
Police cybercrime experts are warning Australians to be extra vigilant after more than $2 million was stolen under the 'Hi Mum" mobile phone scam over past months.
Worthington is a city in and the county seat of Nobles County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 12,764 at the 2010 census.The city's site was first settled in the 1870s as Okabena Station on a line of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, later the Chicago and North Western Railway where steam engines would take on water from adjacent Lake Okabena. More people entered along with one A. P. Miller of Toledo, Ohio, under a... Show more firm called the National Colony Organization. Miller named the new city after his wife's maiden name.
Police cybercrime experts are warning Australians to be extra vigilant after more than $2 million was stolen under the 'Hi Mum" mobile phone scam over past months.
Jan Lenton thought she was lending her son some much-needed emergency cash - but $4500 later she realised she'd been the victim of a cruel scam.
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