SNOQUALMIE, Wash. - A King County man went from having $800,000 in his bank account to being homeless in just a few days due to a scam, family and investigators said.Bogdan Nalivaiko is a Ukrainian immigrant who made western Washington his home decades ago.A few weeks ago, he sold his Snoqualmie home.
He had plans to move down to Auburn and live off the earnings.Unfortunately, the 76-year-old lost everything to scammers, according to his daughter, Julia Elders."On April 25, he sold his house.
On the 26th, he had $800,000 and by May 3, he had zero," said Elders.Elders said scammers targeted her father. She said they told him he had won more than $17 million dollars, but he had to pay the taxes to get the money."I collapsed.
Because I could not imagine in such a short amount of time to lose everything you ever had. It’s an entire life’s earnings," said Elders.Elders lives hundreds of miles away in Minnesota and did not find out about the predicament her father was in until he was facing homelessness."They got what they wanted.