An Australian couple has been scammed out of half a million dollars – after 15 years of juggling multiple jobs to get ahead financially.
Maths teacher Jody and her landscaper husband Corey Bridges had $500,000 stolen when they transferred the funds to a fake bonds investment company pretending to be affiliated with ANZ Bank.
The NSW Central Coast couple, who have three young children – Tahnee, Ava and Isla – were recently on cloud nine after selling a Sydney property during the Covid housing boom, walking away with a juicy $1million in profit.
Inexplicably, half of that windfall has been stolen online.
Jody and Corey Bridges (pictured together) have been scammed out of $500,000 at the hands of a fake investment company
‘We used to work five jobs between us. I’m a school teacher and then I used to tutor students every afternoon,’ Jody told A Current Affair.
‘My husband has his own landscaping business and pretty much works 18 hour days, six days a week.’
Ms Bridges described the feeling of finding out she’d been scammed as ‘gut-wrenching’.
Jody did her due diligence, confirming Capel Court’s ABN with Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC).
Capel Court is a legitimate registered company, but it appears Ms Bridges was fooled by a copy of the website and duped into corresponding over a number of weeks with the ruthless scammers.
She transferred four payments of $250,000 to an ANZ account associated with the scammers from her own Teacher’s Mutual bank…
