“I was told a Fedex delivery driver called Michael Jones would then hand over the cash between 3.30-4pm, and what I had to do when the money arrived was count it to confirm the amount.
Speaking about her experience on October 18, she said: “When I bought the iTunes cards, I peeled them off and read the serial numbers over the phone, and he kept just saying, ‘the next one, the next one’. Instead, the scammers instructed Ms Walton to visit her local Tesco store in Hexham and buy £375-worth of gift cards. The mum-of-one was then told in October she had been awarded £3,750 - and she wouldn’t need to give over her bank details.
Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeĪ mum who fell victim to a PPI scam conning her out of £375-worth of iTunes gift cards is warning others not to fall into the same trap.Īnnette Walton, 47, a housekeeper at the Cheviot Hotel in Northumberland, was plagued with calls for months about the mis-selling of the insurance product from numbers beginning 02 and 03.
