Conned... and conned again: When top criminologist DAVID CANTER lost £18,000 in a scam, he hoped the Action Fraud helpline would bring him justice, but he says their hollow promises were a shattering betrayal
The woman on the phone had a warm and reassuring manner and quickly won my confidence.
She was, she said, a BT engineer, who wanted to make sure my computer hadn’t been ‘compromised’ by fraudulent activity after my email account was hacked.
There seemed no reason not to trust her. She knew my computer’s identification number after all.
When I checked my email account, I discovered it had been hacked and my contacts had been peppered with emails, supposedly sent by me, advising them of my plight and the need for cash. The fraudsters were redirecting responses to their own account [File photo]
Little did I know, on that fateful day two years ago, that it was this woman who was the fraudster, and her duplicitous act — and my gullibility — would allow her to steal £18,000 from my bank account.
But as terrible as that was, it was the next phone conv ..
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