“I’d never usually never spend that kind of money on rent, but I felt like we all just needed a break, and I could afford it. It just meant I couldn’t save while I was there.”
She contacted the real estate agent and even took a tour of the joint before putting in an offer.
She later received an email informing her she had been approved. It instructed her to transfer the funds for the bond as well as four weeks’ rent.
“It was a lot of money. I was clearing out my savings account and part of last week’s wage, that’s a big hit for the school holidays, but I thought about how excited the kids will be when I tell them, it will be like a holiday in itself,” she wrote.
“So I paid it, sent the remittance straight away and told them as soon as possible would be great and announced it to the kids who were so excited.”
“The bank account details weren’t really theirs, and the house was never approved.”
She said although she felt “stupid,” she says “I am a businesswoman, I pay large sums internationally often, I’m scam savvy and don’t pay anything that hasn’t come from a known contact with with a credible email history, so no, I’m not stupid.”
Hall said she wanted to warn her fans as this could happen to “literally anyone desperate to get a rental.”
Unfortunately there was nothing that could be done to recover the lost dough.
“The police told me that I had to make an online cyber report but warned that they would be unlikely to recover the funds,” she added.
“The real estate maintained that there was nothing they could do but assured me that their emails were now secure again.”
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