Text scam victim reveals how clever cyber criminals cost him £2,000

dailyrecord.co.uk:

If any parent received a message from their child asking "Can you help me?", their natural instinct would be to drop everything and help in any way they can.

However, when Peter Saunt was sent a message he believed was from his son asking that very question, it turned out to be falsified and cost him thousands of pounds.

Mr Saunt, from Barwell in Leicestershire, said that he wants to warn others about the devious trick, so that people are aware of fraudsters and their methods for abusing people’s good nature and applying pressure to send over cash, particularly after he saw an identical message that was sent to a friend of his daughter, reports Leicestershire Live.