Andy Cohen reveals he was SCAMMED out of a huge amount of money and is now ‘trying to get my money back’
Andy Cohen has revealed he has lost a lot of money to scams and hopes others can use his experience to protect themselves.
The 55-year-old media star, who says he bought one of the wigs Kim Zolciak was selling, opened up about how thieves fooled him in the Dec. 22 episode of his film Daddy Diaries podcast.
The Bravolebrity explained that he didn't want to “get too deep into what happened,” but told co-host John Hill that he was misled by someone claiming to be from his bank's fraud alert department.
'I lost a card and put in another [a replacement for] and I got an email saying, “Your account may have been subject to fraud,” and I was like, “Oh, this is with the card I lost,” he said.
According to the What's Happening Live host, he logged into the site referenced in the email, but alarm bells started ringing when the person he was speaking to asked for his Apple ID and password.
Andy Cohen, 55, has revealed he has lost a lot of money to scams and hopes others can use his experience to protect themselves. He talked about how thieves fooled him on the December 22 episode of his Daddy Diaries podcast (pictured in New York in November 2023)
“I had already logged into my banking app,” he said. “I think I somehow got access to my banking app through some site.”
The CNN New Year's Eve host explained that he was willing to discuss his financial information because the scammers could list purchases he had recently made.
“They called credits I made debits because they clearly had access to my account.”
He said that during his hour and ten minute phone call, he was tricked into installing a call forwarding app on his phone.
“She said, 'I want you to put these numbers into your phone.' I went to the keyboard and entered some numbers that she told me to enter,” he explained.
“And what came up on my screen was this screen that basically said, I had call forwarding and message forwarding set up on my phone.”
Andy revealed that when he went to the bank the next day, large sums of money had been withdrawn from his accounts and he was unaware of it due to the forwarding he had been persuaded to put on his phone.
“Ever since I set up the forwarding, the calls went to the scammers and they fixed the wires.”
The Bravolebrity told co-host John Hill that he had been misled by someone claiming to be from his bank's fraud alert department. “I lost a card and requested (a replacement for) it, and I got an email saying, 'There may be fraud on your account,'” he explained (pictured in New York in December 2023).
Andy said the scammers had taken large sums of money from his accounts. Since he was tricked into putting a call forwarding app on his phone, all calls about the validity of the wires were cleared by the fraudsters (photo in New York in December 2023)
The Watch What Happens Live host is working to get his money back and is advising anyone who may be contacted by potential scammers to “just go to your bank branch” and double-check any emails they receive to make sure to be them coming off the bench (Pictured in Las Vegas in November 2023)
The executive producer of the Real Housewives franchise advised others who may be contacted by fraudsters to take the time to make sure everything is as it should be.
“Some of my advice to people is that if something happens, just go to your bank branch.”
He added: 'And if you receive emails, look very carefully at the email address. It might say the name of your bank, but when you click on the name, the email address pops up and you see it's some other random address.”
Andy said he was “working on getting my money back.”