Even an expert can be caught out by those ever more resourceful fraudsters.
Who would have thought a finance expert could be scammed? But that’s exactly what happened to me in the Christmas holidays. On the insistent direction of my well-meaning partner Victoria, I transferred more than $5000 to an overseas bank account. She had taken over the process of booking our family holiday in Hawaii as I was deeply entrenched in work for the Christmas rush.
Our beautiful-looking three-bedroom condo, with parking, was a just a short walk from all the action, some of the world’s best surf beaches and the largest shopping malls and had views to die for. It was also priced well compared with similar properties and the (fake) owner was terrific at responding to all our questions. Unfortunately, it was all too good to be true. So where did it all go wrong?
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Money Magazine Australia.
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