They say you can’t put a price on love, but it just cost my mum two thousand pounds.
She got a text from me, saying I’d dropped my phone down the loo, which was why I was messaging from an unfamiliar number, and that I had a bill which needed paying urgently or the interest would double overnight.
We exchanged messages back and forth. It all happened very quickly. Eager to help her only child, my mum transferred all the money I asked for from her savings.
