The former Corrie star fought back tears as he opened up about his ordeal. 3 Hollyoaks star Adam bravely told fans he had been the victim of a horrendous scamCredit: Instagram/@adamrickitt 3 The former Corrie tar gave his emotional confession on InstagramCredit: Instagram/@adamrickitt Adam, who looked distraught and puffy-eyed, addressed his fans wearing a grey t-shirt, and talked about the ’embarrassment’ he felt. The 43-year-old said in an Instagram video: “I got scammed this week with a push payment scam. I will preface all this saying I know I am not the brightest button in the entire repertoire but I consider myself relatively savvy but I just got completely conned. “Essentially what happened is that on Tuesday I got a text from Barclay’s bank saying there had been some suspicious activity on my account and a member of the fraud investigation team was going to be ringing me to discuss it. “ He explained: “I got a phone call from an 0845 number and the chap Martin introduced himself said ‘I am ringing from Barclay’s fraud department, did the same security questions I always have. ‘While I was on the phone to him on my laptop I even went on the Barclay’s website to check the number he was calling from and sure enough it was the Barclay’s fraud number. “Long and short of it was he explained to me that someone had been into the Crewe branch and had attempted to withdraw money. He said the only way that person could do that was using my driving licence and my passport and my signature. “He was saying ‘was that you? They somehow have your passport and driving licence’, at which point I was petrified it was identity fraud. Rang my wife, she checked and sure enough I had my passport and driving licence at home. So I said I don’t understand how this is happening. He said ‘let me ring you back’. Adam, who looked emotional as he continued to relive his ordeal, continued: “So he hung up the phone, I logged into my bank account, everything seemed fine. “I got the phone call back again, and I immediately borrowed one of my friend’s phones to try and ring this number I had found on the website and it went through. “He said what he thought had happened was that it was a bit of an inside job, they had seen CCTV footage of a young lad, obviously not me, who had gone to the teller, asked people to go in front of them in the queue and when he got there he wasn’t asked to hand over his passport. “He said what was concerning them was not only was those two people, because of the size of the funds that were withdrawn there should have been a notification. “So again, I got very nervous.They said what they needed me to do was do a dummy payment, and what it would do is trigger a member of the fraud department. I said no I didn’t want to.They said they would have to shut down the account, so I went back on to my account and sure enough the money was gone. I feel like an idiot. It’s hard to look my wife in the eye” Adam wrote in the caption: “CONFESSION TIME! He said: “I know a lot of people will laugh at me for this…but I want to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else. “I got completely scammed this week by some fraudsters impersonating @barclaysuk “I was 100% sure it was the bank, that they were helping me and that I wasn’t even transferring funds or giving any details away. “Alas the former wasn’t true..they managed to duplicate everything I thought to be safe…they knew EVERYTHING about me and my history with the bank… “I know we all think we know what to do or how to react…but honestly I have never known the stress it created over the course of the scam……and now the embarrassment I feel. “I can’t even begin to suggest how to protect yourself as I thought I was doing everything right…but please just be aware there’s people out there who know exactly how to play the system.Be safe x” 3 Soap favourite Adam urged fans to be carefulCredit: Channel 4
