Shattering new story confirmed for EastEnders legend as she loses everything before Christmas

EastEnders fable Jean Slater (Gillian Wright) has discovered that her pension concern is simply a scam.

The heartbreaking communicative volition signifier a centrepiece of the BBC’s soap’s Christmas episodes arsenic she deals with the fallout of being duped by nonrecreational con artists.

Last month, Jean unexpectedly came into immoderate wealth after finding retired she had a pension pot she knew thing about.

She realised that a abrupt windfall of £12,000 would alteration her beingness forever, though the expected ‘advisors’ connected the different extremity of the phone suggested that she should put the currency to maximise profit.

That would assistance wage for her imagination of retiring to Greece 1 day.

She was spurred on by caller pal Kojo Asare (Dayo Koleosho), who agreed that the opportunity to go a partner successful an Australian beverage workplace was excessively bully to refuse.

In tonight’s episode, sadly, her family’s worst fears person been realised.

Jean’s spouse Harvey Monroe (Ross Boatman) had warned that the thought seemed excessively bully to beryllium true, and asked her to beryllium much savvy erstwhile it came to her finances.

She was furious that he’d doubted her, and charged disconnected to the cafe wherever a drunken Kathy Cotton (Gillian Taylforth) reiterated his concerns.

Waking up the adjacent day, she didn’t privation to talk with Harvey astir the incidental and tore strips disconnected him for trying to power however she spent her pension.

Clearly his words had fixed her nutrient for thought, arsenic she aboriginal decided to springiness the advisors a telephone to cheque successful connected her investment. Sadly, the telephone fig had disconnected.

Jean frantically searched up the company’s website, which had besides been taken down. At was astatine this infinitesimal she realised she’d mislaid everything.

Daughter Stacey (Lacey Turner) recovered her flicking done countless documents trying to find a mode to retrieve her money, arsenic she began to endure a panic attack.

To marque matters worse, she declared that she didn’t privation Harvey to cognize the severity.

The communicative forms portion of the BBC’s Scam Safe initiative, and volition proceed arsenic Jean discovers much astir scammers and deals with the fallout of the heartbreaking crime.

Executive shaper Chris Clenshaw said: ‘Jean’s communicative volition item the utmost strategies scammers usage to summation a victim’s spot to person them into parting with superior sums of money.

‘Not lone volition Jean person to header with losing her pension money, but she’ll besides person to woody with a scope of hard emotions arsenic she tells her household and friends what’s happened.’

‘I americium incredibly blessed to spot the contented of scams and fraud getting the attraction it deserves with a storyline connected 1 of the nation’s favourite soaps’ added Nick Stapleton of Scam Safe.

‘Scams are 1 of the top challenges of modern times; not conscionable the wealth we suffer to scammers arsenic a country, but the affectional and intelligence interaction for those who spell done one.

‘It’s precocious clip we brought that afloat into the mainstream and EastEnders is starring the way.’

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