Lucca v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

WINKELSTEIN, J.A.D.

(retired and temporarily assigned on recall).1

Between June 21, 2011, and December 21, 2011, then-eighty-two-year-old plaintiff, Margaret Lucca, made approximately twenty-seven wire transfers, in the sum of roughly $330,000, from her account at the Wells Fargo Bank branch in Somers Point, New Jersey. She sent the funds at the direction of an individual who telephoned her home, identified himself as a lawyer, and provided her with the information for the wire transfers. Plaintiff did not know the caller or the beneficiaries of the wire transfers. Put simply, plaintiff was…