Heartless Attackers Stole Identities of Surfside Condo Collapse Victims

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Threat actors are targeting people who died in the June 24 collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside by ransacking their bank accounts and opening a credit card in their names. 

“It’s terrible. I can’t wait to put a face to these deeds right now, and I think all of South Florida is eager to see who would do something like this – what kind of person would do something like this. But I’m looking forward to our police department apprehending them, and they are out there looking. I wouldn’t want to be that person right now,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told 10 News.

The account of Antonio Lozano, 83, and his wife Gladys, 79, married nearly 59 years and found in their bed together, was compromised by a hacker the day of their funeral, their son Sergio Lozano told WSVN News. The hackers filled out a change of address form and opened up fraudulent credit cards and bank accounts for his parents’ account, then withdrew money via Zelle. 

“I find it totally devastating, after losing my parents, that I have to deal with all the estate issues, and now I’m having to deal with somebody stealing from my parents. After they’re dead and buried, they’re stealing from them?”

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