Loose Women star 'shaken' after being targeted by scammers

ok.co.uk:

Linda Robson has been left shaken up after she was the target of online scammers recently, with the scammers pretending to be her daughter Roberta asking to borrow money.

Believing the scam, Linda admits she almost sent money over before realising it wasn't truly her daughter messaging her. "I was on Loose Women when I got a Whatsapp message from my daughter, saying: 'I've dropped my phone down the toilet, can you send me some money?' I rang her and then she texted me saying: 'I can't pick up the phone because it's gone down the toilet.' It sounded like it was my daughter, she was saying things we would say to each other, and used her nickname for her - Bobbi Girl," Linda told The Mirror.

Sign up to OK!'s TV newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free She admitted: "I really thought it was true. would've sent the money the scammers wanted - £150 - because I was really worried she didn’t have any.

Luckily one of the bosses on the show said to me: 'I think you're being scammed'. So I asked the person on the phone for the name of our dog.They said Gerald, and I said: ‘No, my dog's called Dolly.