A La Jolla father of five is speaking out about bank fraud after getting conned out of $18,000 in a telephone scam. Mark Del Muro agreed to be interviewed on camera to help prevent other people from being scammed out of their hardearned money.

Somehow, the scammers knew Del Muro's cell phone number and that he was a customer at US Bank. “The first thing I saw on my phone was US Bank customer service,” said Del Muro.

The conman called him claiming he was investigating unusual transactions on Del Muro’s bank account. “Did you make a purchase at Kroger? Did you make a purchase with Apple? Did you make this purchase with Walmart,” the man asked.

Del Muro became worried. He had not made the purchases and the man told him they were going to have shut down his account. “The initial panic of like, hey, somebody's in our bank account. And the first thing you want to do is like, oh, my God, I got to stop it,” Del Muro recalled.

The scammer said US Bank would text Del Muro a code and he needed the code repeated back to verify his identity. “The texts were actually going into my wife's phone, and I'm asking for the codes, which, in hindsight, were basically codes to allow him to change my password,” said Del Muro.

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