The woman, who is in her 60s, told police she had clicked on an advert for a bitcoin investment scheme which appeared to be promoted by money expert and broadcaster Martin Lewis
But the advert turned out to be a scam and was not endorsed by Mr Lewis. The personal finance guru has warned before that he never does adverts or promotion of investments.
Her story was shared by Nottinghamshire Police, which said it had received dozens of reports of people falling victim to advance fee fraud recently. This is where scammers promise something valuable in return for paying money upfront, but then disappear leaving the victims thousands of pounds out of pocket.
The couple said they had fallen for the scam because the person who called them had been “very polite and persuasive”. In a third case, a vulnerable woman was almost defrauded out of £70,000 before her bank stepped in and stopped the transaction.Detective Sergeant Tara Clapperton, of Nottinghamshire Police’s fraud team, has urged people to think extremely carefully before investing in schemes advertised online.
“If you’re contacted by anyone not known to you and unexpectedly asking you to invest or to send them money, you should treat it with caution. Don’t be pushed or rushed into anything you are not sure of and remember, if it is too good to be true, then it probably is.
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