Redwood City widow conned out of nearly $2 million, bank accused of helping scammers

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A year after her husband died of pancreatic cancer, Diane Yaffe of Redwood City picked up her phone in August 2022 and her already difficult life spun into a financial catastrophe. That’s according to a lawsuit that accuses JPMorgan Chase Bank of facilitating the scam that stole almost all the 77-year-old widow’s life savings — $1.8 million — through fraudulent wire transfers. When Yaffe answered her phone that day, a man who said he was from Amazon asked her to identify charges for expensive Apple computers, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in San Mateo County Superior Court. When she...