Amy Hart left feeling 'so humiliated' as Love Island star scammed and loses £5,000

Former Love Island prima Amy Hart has helped to motorboat a run to combat evil scammers aft she was robbed of £5000 erstwhile she was targeted implicit the phone

Reality TV prima Amy Hart has spoken retired astir however she was made a unfortunate of a £5,000 scam.

The erstwhile Love Island prima has admitted she felt "so alone" aft she was defrauded retired of the wealth by criminals pretending to beryllium her bank. Amy besides urged others who autumn unfortunate to akin scams not to consciousness embarrassed arsenic it is precise casual to beryllium deceived by con artists who usage blase methods.

Talking astir the terrifying acquisition which took spot successful 2022 she said: "My telephone rang, I didn't recognise the fig truthful I didn't reply it. I went onto Google to hunt for the fig and it came backmost arsenic my bank's fraud team. They phoned backmost again, truthful that clip I answered it."

Amy continued to The Sun: "They knew tons of accusation astir maine and they said, 'There's been immoderate dodgy enactment connected your account' past your bosom complaint goes up. You're sweaty, you're worried, you're panicking, and you conscionable privation to benignant it out. They usage unit tactics."

Amy past explained however she was shown 2 transactions - 1 she had made and 1 she hadn't - she clicked yes connected the popular up connected her telephone to the transaction she recognised and that was capable for the fraudsters to get access. She said: "As soon arsenic I clicked 'yes' they had entree and managed to get £5,000 from me.

"When you're successful the infinitesimal connected the telephone it feels truthful accelerated paced. It feels truthful noisy. It feels. You're hot, you're sweaty and your bosom rate's going. And past arsenic soon arsenic you travel disconnected the phone, you realise you've been scammed and it's similar a deathly soundlessness - you conscionable consciousness truthful stupid, truthful unsocial and truthful humiliated."

Amy was fortunate that she was capable to get her wealth backmost aft her slope conducted an probe into what had happened adjacent though she said astatine the clip she thought "that's it, they've got my details and they're conscionable going to hitch my account." Amy added that she has "worked for that wealth and I person to unrecorded connected it."

Feeling fortunate that things weren't overmuch worse and has present collaborated with O2 to assistance them motorboat Daisy - an AI granny designed to discarded scammers' clip - for the Swerve the Scammers campaign. The AI instauration is helping to forestall existent radical from getting scammed arsenic the fake granny tricks the scammers instead.

Amy besides reminded victims "it's not your fault. Don't beryllium embarrassed." She explained that the scammers are "literally professionals - their assemblage is to extort wealth from radical and you've conscionable been a unfortunate of that." She added: "By speaking retired you tin assistance others to debar being scammed."

Amy Hart has teamed up with O2 to rise consciousness of telephone scams and however you tin enactment harmless by reporting suspicious calls and texts to 7726. To find retired much sojourn o2.co.uk/swervethescammers.

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