A woman has issued a warning to others after admitting she recently fell victim to the "smartest scam ever", which almost cost her a substantial amount of money .

Bec, a Starling bank customer, claimed she received a telephone call from an "Englishman" purporting to be from their fraud department who informed her of "suspicious activity" on her account within the previous two hours. In a TikTok video, she confessed: "I've been such an idiot and not noticed the red flags. I questioned it straight away as I hadn't received any notifications that money had left my account... But he told me those notifications had been blocked because the account was under investigation - it was an obvious red flag but I didn't clock it."

She revealed the conversation progressed, with the scammer telling

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