Love Island’s Amy Hart opens up about the terrifying moment she was scammed for £5k and says ‘I felt so humiliated’

AMY Hart has opened up astir the terrifying infinitesimal she realised she'd been scammed for £5,000.

The 31-year-old confessed she felt "so alone" aft criminals posing arsenic her slope stole the ample sum of money.

Love Island prima Amy urged anyone who finds themselves successful a akin concern to not consciousness embarrassed and insists it's casual to autumn unfortunate to the blase con artists.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun astir the daze scam 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.

"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 - who shares son Stanley, one, with husband Sam Rason - explained that the fraudster past showed her 2 transactions - 1 she did marque and 1 she didn't.

Because Amy recognised 1 of the payments she was encouraged to property 'yes' connected a popular up connected her phone.

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."

Luckily, aft contacting her backmost and having them investigate, Amy was capable to get her wealth back.

She said: "I though, 'that's it, they've got my details and they're conscionable going to hitch my account'.

"I've worked for that wealth and I person to unrecorded connected it. But I took it further, the slope investigated the lawsuit and idiosyncratic higher up listened to the telephone and realised what had happened."

Amy is alert things could person turned retired overmuch worse.

Because of this Amy has teamed up with O2 motorboat Daisy - the AI granny wasting scammers' clip arsenic portion of the ongoing Swerve the Scammers campaign.

While determination is simply a drama constituent to a fake granny taking up the fraudsters' clip truthful they can't people existent victims, Amy wants different radical who person recovered themselves successful akin situations to talk retired and rise awareness.

She said: "It's not your fault. Don't beryllium embarrassed.

"These radical are virtually professionals - their assemblage is to extort wealth from radical and you've conscionable been a unfortunate of that.

"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 Brits tin enactment harmless by reporting suspicious calls and texts to 7726. To find retired much visit o2.co.uk/swervethescammers