Andy Cohen says he was scammed out of ‘a lot of money’ by fraudster who got his banking details

Andy Cohen has revealed he was cheated out of “a lot of money” after a fraudster tricked him into giving up his personal information.

The “Watch What Happens Live” host, 55, said he received a phone call about potential fraud on his bank account, and he gave his information away, thinking it was linked to a debit card he he had recently lost.

“Someone called to tell me it was a fraud alert from my bank,” he said on an episode of his Daddy Diaries podcast last week.

“SO [they] asked me for my Apple ID and pa*sword. And I was like, ‘OK, that never happens,'” Cohen continued.

By the time he “bailed,” the scammers already had the information they needed.

“I was already logged into my banking app, and I think somehow my login through whatever site it was gave them access to my banking app,” he said. -he explains.

The “New Year’s Eve Live” host also noted that the scammers hacked into the caller ID system, so Cohen’s bank name would appear when they called him.

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“They were naming the credits I had made – the charges – because they clearly had access to my account,” he recalls.

“What I should have said was, ‘Can I call you back?’ Or maybe what I should have said was, “I’m going to go to my bank and handle this.” »

Cohen was on the phone with the hackers “for an hour and 10 minutes,” and later saw “these people kicked out of two accounts that I have a lot of money in.”

They had also scammed Cohen – unknowingly – into setting up a call transfer, so he never received calls from his bank asking about the large amount of transfers.

However, the big boss of reality TV is “trying to get [his] money refunded.

“Part of my advice to people is if something happens, just go to your bank branch,” he added.

“And when you receive emails, look very carefully at the email address. It may say the name of your bank, but click on the name and then the email address will appear and you will see that it is another random address.