Alan Davies has lost hundreds of pounds in online scams as he’s ‘relentlessly’ targeted

Alan Davies has revealed helium gets scammed ‘relentlessly’ online and mislaid £400 buying a PlayStation 5 that was ne'er delivered.

The Jonathan Creek star, 58, was near retired of pouch successful 2022 aft falling for a fake listing of the Sony games console.

He besides said helium astir handed implicit £457 to a mendacious website erstwhile buying Christmas gifts for his 3 children – Susie, 15, Robert, 13, and Francis, 8 – aft uncovering a discontinued Lego acceptable that had made 1 of their lists.

When asked connected BBC Radio Four’s The Infinite Monkey Cage if helium had ever fallen unfortunate to a scam, the TV prima opened up connected his cybersecurity mishaps.

‘Relentlessly, astatine Christmas I had 3 Christmas lists from 3 children and I recovered each azygous acquisition connected the tract from each 3 lists, including a Lego acceptable that was nary longer made,’ helium said.

‘I astir gave them £457 and past I thought “this is unlikely” but I was scammed connected a PS5 2 years ago, that was £400 down the drain.

Davies said helium besides fell unfortunate to a Bitcoin scammer who hacked his relationship connected X, saying that helium ‘couldn’t bash thing astir it’ aft uncovering it ‘impossible’ to interaction anyone to talk to.

‘It’s present go astir intolerable to interaction an existent quality being with immoderate institution you’re dealing with, my Twitter relationship was hacked by a bitcoin scammer and I couldn’t bash thing astir it,’ the QI panelist said.

‘They hacked into my email and I mislaid my 800,000 followers, not a large food successful the water but it was precise adjuvant for me, if I was doing a circuit oregon something.

‘Then I couldn’t get backmost into the relationship and they said we fishy you are a bot, we don’t cognize who you are and I responded “Google me”, I’m not hard to travel by, but astatine nary constituent successful that process could I pass with a quality being.

‘What I bash erstwhile I get the email I’m suspicious of is I person a look astatine the email code and it’s usually jeremy68qzynamibia and I deliberation “hang connected a minute, that isn’t Carphone Warehouse”.’

Earlier this month, Coronation Street star Tony Maudsley revealed helium was conned retired of £600 portion trying to buy Oasis tickets. 

Tony had been trying to unafraid tickets to the band’s much-anticipated reunion tour next year, which volition people the archetypal clip brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have played unneurotic since 2009. 

In a station connected X, formerly Twitter, Tony wrote: ‘Gutted. Thought I’d lucked retired and got 4 OASIS tickets for my brothers birthday.

‘Guy connected Facebook who appeared to person communal friends. I sent £600 to his bank. He kept messaging maine saying it hadn’t cleared.’

However, Tony revealed helium managed not to suffer the cash, adding: ‘Seems my slope were much connected the shot than maine and stopped the payment.’

In different post, helium added: ‘Beware. This is simply a caller level of scamming. Seems the feline helium was pretending to beryllium had had his relationship hacked.

‘Luckily idiosyncratic other that knew the existent feline got successful interaction and warned me. Durrrr. WISE UP, MAUDSLEY!!’

BBC News fable Moira Stewart besides antecedently spoke of her ‘anger’ aft astir falling unfortunate to an elaborate slope scam.

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