Couple robbed of life savings after cruel scam | 9 News Australia

Baaaaa

Should of kept it in the bank or invested very little

Eddies got enough to double what they lost surely

Greed can …be cruel!

Why would you not get financial planning advice where you meet the planner face to face in a proper office and you scrutinize their credentials on ASIC.

So platforms get told they have to be responsible for other's misinformation or 'hate' speach yet it is able to become infested with scams n cons…. Why?
So we beg for more intrusive overreach to make it stop?

How about useful content filters and the ability to better control what content you receive in the first place then we won't need big brother to do it for us

Plenty of scams around

BUT READ between the lines

Story says " THEY INVESTED $500K" over 3 months

SLAB of concrete already laid,there is no way that the " investment money " came from the funds to build the property

Something just doesn't add up here ,

If ANY of us enter into an investment,we don't empty our accounts

AT NO STAGE does thus story say accounts were raided or money stolen

The HUSBAND " invested"

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

There's a whole bunch of these ad with AI defake some celebrity to lure you in, even channel 7 breaking news with Kochei telling you how he made million dollars out of a little…..

Aussie Aussie Aussie Dumb Dumb DUMB 😂

2025 and we still have stupid people falling for this

Whats our federal government doing don't we have people who invest there time into catching these cyber criminal's i know about these scams they tryed me recently i was already to invest a small amount an till the Pakistani Guy on the other end of the phone had the cheek to ask me how much money i had in my account

Vic government has fleeced everyone.

I agree with the comments here.
Some people just shouldn’t be on the internet.

Only stupid people do stuff like this.

no one can give 10. 12 percent interest on your investment a red flag

I feel for them but people have to be cautious. Ask questions and seek advice please!

Watch out for channel 9 ,they are like weman ,LIARS

Wtf poor gooses

Who would NOT check this all out first. They had the money to build their dream home BUT GREED kicked in. Yes it's sad… SMH!

Really, no red flags when the broker is (IMHO allegedly) in London..

I am lucky as I don't understand what they said on investment ads. So I don't INVEST on their part.

Time to get off all “ technology”, do it yourself.

Takes me about 2 seconds to spot a deep fake, i don’t understand how people fall for it.

My bank would not let me pay any huge bills say taxes or big job around the house bills., they will make sure first even encaging security service to make sure, the money goes to where it must go.

Wow. I’m speechless.

Clearly, he spent 5 mins reseaching this amazing deal before committing $500k

Derpppppppp 😂

I won the st johns grand prize home and had it stolen i just want to go home

😢

That's what happens, when you see only the $$ signs, and not the red flags.. as the saying goes.. "A fool and his money, are soon parted" I feel sorry for them, but scammers only exist, because of people like themselves..

Even blind freddy could see it was ascam

Eddi with an American accent should of been a red flag

Can’t stop stupidity . If I was investing that amount I would be sure of who I was dealing with and not just ring a number without checking.

Sooo cruel.. I hope they find them and you get it all back 😢😢

So sad 😢.. these criminals have no heart to do this to innocent people.,Don’t trust anyone these days .,

"STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES" – FOREST GUMP🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And you definitely wouldn't believe me if i said it was government with their hacker that ripped off your super funds🤷 p.s and that's not saying the government are SMART, it's saying their hacker is (that hacked OPTUS but not TELSTRA🤔) because Telstra is the governments phone/internet service (NBN) so they wanted all optus customer to move over to Telstra so they could make more money, it's not rocket science🤔🙄 they had to get the money to give you government slaves a raise from somewhere huh????🤔🤣

Who ran the ads, channel 9 runs same

That's disgusting be careful.

Only two reasons why people believe a con;
1. They want it to be true and FOMO*, or
2. They're scared that it's true and FOMO.

Only two reasons why people refuse to believe the truth;
1. It sounds inconvenient, or
2. It sounds ridiculous**

*fear of missing out
**the "you can't make this scht up" events and incidents

Okay, Channel Nine, what's the protocol for reporting these scams when we come across them?

Thats terrible but goodness me I mean why would you take a risk like that

1. Which member of parliament stole $38million, assisted by Barnaby Joyce?

2. How did they do it?

3. Which government department was robbed?

Answers:
1. Angus Taylor

2. Illegally avoided a tender process so selling bulk water for $38million MORE THAN IT WAS WORTH.

3. Murray Darling Water Authority.

Stupid is as stupid does.

That’s rough … I hope people will come
Together and help these two build their home

Half a million!…. Why would I want more…!

Would that make me,loose kilos or would it make me happy!?
I just wonder!

Do we understand.. the …2!

The criminals are living the high life in some third world country.

Greed is the downfall of many people.
Don't feel sorry for a person who had so much and gambled it on something he had no idea what he was investing in!
Didn't appreciate what he had!

Welcome to the reality of many people's lives right now.