Exchange Student Emergency

My housemate, who requests to remain unnamed, is a foreign exchange student from Japan who has been addending Fullerton Community College for the last year and a half. Last week she was unintentionally involved in a massive tech support SCAM that has been targeting foreign exchange students in the U.S. who are here, legally, on a student visa, by posing as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and threatening arrest, deportation — or both.

They stole $9,000 from her personal bank account in a matter of 20 minutes.

Please watch this video of her explaining step by step how they did it.

Here is a link to a report, verifying that this same thing is happening to others in the same exact way 
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/immigration-scammers-pose-as-ice-agents-fraud/65-344c8ef3-4b50-4b05-9781-a67514fa5b9b 

High level organized fraud is capitalizing on the fear that already exists among international students during this time of haphazard policy changes toward them, making them especially vulnerable. This happened within the same week that she was anxiously waiting to hear from her college what class would be available to enroll in, in order to fulfill the requirement of President Trump’s new policy (which was quickly retracted) which would have forced students taking solely online classes to return home, transfer to programs with in-person classes, or face the risk of deportation. 

My goal is to replace as many of her funds as possible, preferably all of them $9,000 to aid her family who is currently scrambling to come up with more funds to support her. 

Will receive anything that helps towards this goal and as soon as possible! Thank you for your support and love for your neighbors. <3