An alarmingly simple scam ensnared a university student, stealing the $12,000 he saved for a student exchange trip to America in just ten minutes.
Matthew Sweeney, a 22-year-old criminology and criminal justice student at Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology, was working a regular shift at a supplement store in Braeside on Wednesday evening when the incident happened. His routine was disrupted by an unusual pop-up alert flashing on his iPhone.
