A WOMAN has been left scrambling for solutions after $50,000 disappeared from her retirement accounts.

The 86-year-old retiree has tried for over two months to get her a refund from Constancy Investments.

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Nancy Smith stated she’ll proceed to battle for solutions till Constancy resolves the problem.

“I am not gonna quit, and I’ve determined to not die till that is over,” Smith advised ABC affiliate WSB-TV.

“Any person was asleep on the change, anyone was not doing their job, or this could have by no means occurred.”

Smith is a retired instructor and mom of 5 who lives in Fayetteville, Georgia, about 25 miles south of Atlanta.

In September, Smith found three new joint accounts had been created at Constancy in her identify.

Every of the accounts was linked to a special one that Smith did not acknowledge.

“Eleven completely different transfers had been made by these three bogus individuals,” Smith stated.

Three individuals despatched 1000’s of {dollars} in every switch from Smith’s retirement financial savings to the joint accounts.

Then, the cash was transferred out of the joint accounts to different particular person accounts.

“Then they might empty their account into God is aware of the place,” Smith stated.

Smith stated she by no means signed off on the joint accounts or the transfers.

“For them to not even give me a name or require these individuals to have a signature, I simply completely can not imagine it,” Smith stated.

“However it’s true.”

Smith slammed Constancy for not serving to her get her a refund over two months after it was stolen.

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She stated a financial institution supervisor even advised her over the telephone to “decrease her expectations.”

“My mom could be ashamed of me if I stated what I wish to have stated as a result of I couldn’t go to the Methodist church after that,” Smith stated.

Constancy hasn’t returned The U.S. Solar’s request for remark.

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Fraud investigations can take weeks, a spokesperson advised WSB-TV.

They added that Constancy will not talk about particular person circumstances.

“To guard buyer privateness, we don’t talk about particular person issues and work with our prospects on to reply any questions they might have regarding suspicious exercise,” Constancy stated in an announcement to WSB-TV.

“We perceive scams can affect people and their households and encourage everybody to take steps to guard themselves and their accounts, together with monitoring accounts steadily for suspicious exercise and contacting monetary establishments immediately ought to something out of the odd, together with telephone calls or texts from unknown events, happen.”

Constancy additionally got here below fireplace in October after the asset supervisor confirmed 77,000 prospects had their private info uncovered in an information breach.

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