I got a text I thought I could trust – and lost £25,000 to a scam

Fraudsters conned Britons into transferring £583.2m to them in 2021*; now Lloyds Bank is at the forefront of a campaign to raise awareness. Here, a victim reveals how easy it is to get sucked into this type of scam‘No one thinks they’d fall for something like this,’ says Hamish Ballingall, 29, from Twickenham, south-west London. ‘But it’s hard to understand how sophisticated these scams are until it happens to you’“I was on holiday with friends in