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Rebecca Cook

Hollyoaks' Adam Rickett says he was scammed out of £50,000 and afraid to tell his wife

Good Morning Britain's Katy Rickett has issued an urgent warning alongside her husband Adam after they were defrauded of nearly £50,000 in a horror bank scam.

The Hollyoaks star, 44, took to his social media to share the news he had been scammed out of tens of thousands of pounds in an elaborate fraud, claiming the scammers “knew everything about him”.

Adam said he received a text purporting to be from Barclays bank warning that there had been “suspicious activity” on his account and then received a call from an 0845 number, claiming to be the bank’s fraud department.

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