THIS is the work-from-home mum who was branded a ‘useful idiot’ by a judge over what she claimed was her ‘unwitting’ role in an iPhone sales scam.
ariska Palm (31) pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and fraud at Bandon District Court arising from the online scam in which she was recruited to advertise mobile phones on Facebook’s ‘Marketplace’.
Palm, a native of South Africa, later allowed her bank account details to be used by the masterminds behind the plot and was arrested when two of her customers complained to gardaí they had handed over large sums of money but never received their iPhones.
It later emerged that scammers had been behind these transactions and both individuals lost their money.
Speaking with the…
