Cyber crooks email bomb, steal over $4,000 from Florida man's bank account

Seminole resident Ron Bharath could not figure out what was happening. On June 6, junk emails began flooding his inbox. ”It just got to be more and more and more. I was like, wait a minute, something's wrong,” Bharath told ABC Action News. At first, he wasn’t overly concerned. “I thought maybe a hacker got into my email, and it just tried to play a prank on me,” he said about the 3,200 emails he received that day. But Bharath discovered something more sinister than a prank when hours later, his bank texted him about an $800 withdrawal. After checking his bank account, he found a hacker had made 18 debits totaling $4,600 and wiped out his checking account.