JK Rowling has revealed she has been 'scammed a few times' as it emerged she has donated around £200 million to charity.
It was while writing the sixth instalment of her world-renowned Harry Potter wizarding series, when the author came across a picture of a small five year old Czech boy, Vasek Knotek, with his face leaning against barbed wire.
Since then, the impassioned 59-year-old sent letters to the former director of fundraising for Save the Children, MEP Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, keen to help vulnerable young people in the ex-Soviet country.
A year later in 2010, Rowling and Baroness Nicholson set up a charity named Children's High Level Group, later renamed Lumos, a name of a charm in one of Rowling's books - a shining light in the darkest of times.
In the two decades since the author first saw the image of the Czechian orphanage, the Harry Potter author has given £63 million to the charity aiding children in the eastern European country.
