{"id":11249,"date":"2023-08-19T20:37:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/19\/gone-in-two-transfers-the-email-scam-that-cost-australian-homebuyers-their-life-savings\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T20:37:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:37:32","slug":"gone-in-two-transfers-the-email-scam-that-cost-australian-homebuyers-their-life-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/19\/gone-in-two-transfers-the-email-scam-that-cost-australian-homebuyers-their-life-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone in two transfers: the email scam that cost Australian homebuyers their life savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW residents Simon Elvins and his wife lost nearly $250,000 to a payment redirection scam \u2013 and they are not alone<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Simon Elvins and his wife were excited \u2013 they had spent 10 years saving for their first home and they had finally got there. The New South Wales man had just been sent an invoice from his conveyancer, asking him to pay the first lot of his home deposit for a property in the Blue Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>In two transactions on 5 and 8 May, he sent the money and waited. After a few days, he had not heard back, so he emailed the conveyancers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\"> <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/aug\/20\/australian-email-payment-redirection-scam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ac0f5f0a7e8ef64cd8366d770fb14506acbbb9a7\/0_1320_6171_3703\/master\/6171.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=63adc8f689457f3de38f67387769bdd0\" title=\"Gone in two transfers: the email scam that cost Australian homebuyers their life savings\" \/>NSW residents Simon Elvins and his wife lost nearly $250,000 to a payment redirection scam \u2013 and they are not alone<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Simon Elvins and his wife were excited \u2013 they had spent 10 years saving for their first home and they had finally got there. The New South Wales man had just been sent an invoice from his conveyancer, asking him to pay the first lot of his home deposit for a property in the Blue Mountains.<br \/>\nIn two transactions on 5 and 8 May, he sent the money and waited. After a few days, he had not heard back, so he emailed the conveyancers.<br \/>\nSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW residents Simon Elvins and his wife lost nearly $250,000 to a payment redirection scam \u2013 and they are not alone Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Simon Elvins and his wife were excited \u2013 they had spent 10 years saving for their first home and they had &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/19\/gone-in-two-transfers-the-email-scam-that-cost-australian-homebuyers-their-life-savings\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gone in two transfers: the email scam that cost Australian homebuyers their life savings<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}