A mother has been left with just £1.61 after answering a phone call from an unknown caller.
Vicki Jones, 44, from West Derby, lost £10,500 of her own money to scammers last week who 'didn't even ask for bank details'.
Vicki told the Liverpool Echo how the scammers pretended to be from Action Fraud - the UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime that people are supposed to report scams to.
But after spending five hours on the phone to the scammers, who knew details including her name, address and the bank she already had two accounts with, Vicki had transferred thousands of pounds of her own money over to a fake 'holding account'.
Vicki said: 'They [the scammers] rang me to say that there had been unusual activity on my account and they had stopped a few payments.
