Tradie loses $58,000 in scam - and warns it can happen to anyone

A young tradie who lost his 'entire life savings' to an online scam has warned others to not fall for the same trick he did.

Furkan Colak, 26, received a convincing text which appeared to come from ANZ telling him that his account had been accessed by an unknown person in Perth in August 2024. 

At the time Mr Colak was trying to save up to buy a house in Melbourne and afford knee surgery for his dad, so he quickly acted in order to try and save his money. 

The text had come through in the same thread ANZ had previously used to send him legitimate messages so he did not find anything about the warning to be suspicious. 

Unfortunately, hackers had infiltrated the thread using sophisticated software which made it almost impossible to tell that the latest text was a forgery. 

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