Former Married At First Sight star Mishel Karen has become one of Australia’s biggest and most unlikely OnlyFans stars over the last year.
But the 51-year-old grandmother has now been defrauded out of her earnings from the site after being targeted in an elaborate financial trading scam that’s left her broke and emotionally devastated.
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, the mum-of-two said that conmen ran off with over $77,267 of her money, on top of leaving her broken-hearted after one wooed her with a fake romance.
EXCLUSIVE: Former Married At First Sight star Mishel Karen (pictured) has been left penniless after an online scam tricked her into forking out over $77,000 of her earnings from OnlyFans
‘I feel like a really big dumb dumb, I really do,’ she admitted.
‘They know the person, they know your weakness and then they start playing on that.’
Mishel was originally tricked into signing up with an online brokerage, which Daily Mail Australia cannot name for legal reasons, after being seduced by misleading reviews and media articles about the company.
One article she was presented with claimed that several prominent Australian celebrities, including a notable TV host, had endorsed the brokerage on television – only for Mishel to later to discover that the entire article had been fabricated to fool her.
She was also given a fake London address for the business and directed to websites that featured phony, glowing reviews of the company along with false claims…
