Sadly, scammers are on the prowl, looking for their next victim, and are hunting for people who may have let their guard down. Pauline Padden, a 58-year old NHS nurse, shared her story of how she sadly fell victim to a scam when appearing on ITV’s This Morning.
Back in 2013, Ms Padden was experiencing a family challenge as her mother was dying in hospital.
Understandably concerned, she was eager to be by her mother’s side, but because of her work in the NHS nurse’s bank, if she didn’t work she did not get paid.
It was when travelling home from the hospital one evening that Ms Padden received a text message relating to pensions.
The correspondence asked Ms Padden if she had a pension which was not performing well, and promised better returns and gifts for moving them.
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After a subsequent gift of £1,900, Ms Padden was convinced the firm was keeping up their end of the bargain, and that everything was going smoothly.
Sadly, Ms Padden’s mother then died, and she was caught up in a whirlwind of grief which kept her occupied.
She only began to become suspicious when she had not heard any updates about her pension in a while.
The penny dropped when she was contacted by the Pensions Regulator, who after asking her about her investments, told her she had been scammed.
Ms Padden said: “I was still up the wall after my mum passed. I thought ‘Oh my God’. I couldn’t do anything. It was…
