Eamonn Holmes has spoken out about falling victim to credit card scam that cost him £60,000.
The Belfast man was targeted by scam artist Jay Cartmill back in 2014, costing him thousands of pounds, and is now warning people to stay vigilant.
“The effect it has on you is that it makes you suspicious of everyone and everything and you feel very, very vulnerable,” Eamonn told The Sun.
The This Morning presenter revealed how he got a call from his bank while he was on holiday with his wife Ruth Langsford, to say that the conman had wracked up huge bills on his bank account,
“We were in Dubai at a Bedouin experience, and the guy said to me, ‘I can’t get a signal on the machine, I have to go to the top of that sand dune to get a signal’.“And I thought, ‘That’s where it happened’. But it didn’t happen there.”
“The guy with the brain hacks your account, the Mafioso lot pay him money, they take your details and they live off them.
“It was the most ridiculous situation but the scandalous thing is that when it went to court the judge said it was a victimless crime because they will say the bank will reimburse me and I could afford it.”
