A woman has revealed how she was scammed out of $500 after she received a friend request from someone posing as Kyle Sandilands on Facebook.
Marina Grima, from Sydney, answered a question on the official Kyle and Jackie O page before she received a response from an account claiming to be the KIISFM breakfast host.
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“There was a reply from Kyles Sandilands saying, ‘Congratulation, you’ve won $1000’,” she tells 7Lifestyle.
“They stated I was the winner and they needed my details for the prize money. I didn’t think much of it as it was after my comment.”
Marina says she was asked to fill out a questionnaire.
“Firstly I was asked to answer a questionnaire which I did and at the end, it said to click for further prizes and discounts,” she says.
“So I kept going along.”
She was then asked to provide her bank details so she could claim her prize money.
When she messaged the person asking why, she was told she was going to be “charged $0.01 to activate account”.
“So I paid it,” Marina says.
