A DJ has told how he turned the tables on an online scammer who was trying to fleece him for £1,000.
Ross Walsh, 22, from Limerick in Ireland, said he managed to fool the trickster into transferring £25 to his account.
Mr Walsh boasted that it was the third time he has extracted a small sum from scammers and donated the money to charity.
"I want to waste their time so they're not wasting anyone else's time," he told the Limerick Leader.
The part-time DJ, known by his stage name Welshy, duped the email scammer who went by the name Solomon Gundi.
The trickster asked Mr Walsh to transfer him £1,000 as investment in their “company” in exchange for half of the “business”.
Mr Walsh told the scammer that his bank had put a stop to his transaction like these as they were flagged as scams.
He asked “Solomon” to transfer him £25 as part of a security check as proof that the transaction would be legitimate.
"I said they don't want to release the funds unless they see a small sum of money going from his account to my account just to prove this isn't a scam," Mr Walsh said.
"He fell for it then."
Once the £25 reached his account, Mr Walsh said he donated it to a cancer charity and sent "Solomon" the receipt.
