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A mum said her children were left 'devastated' after they had to cancel a family holiday just hours before following a £4,000 scam.
Emma Last, 48, and her husband Zak, 51, were due to fly out to a villa in Majorca for an eight-night family holiday last August. They had seemingly booked a villa large enough for them, the three children and Emma's parents.
But just hours before they were due to leave for the airport, the family realised they had been scammed. Emma, first found the property on Airbnb but was then directed from there to WhatsApp, where she was provided with a link from 'Travel Villas', along with what claimed to be a Booking.com 'portal' to process the payment later on.
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Emma's mother, Julia, 74, paid £4,120 for the villa via this link and Emma paid £1,722.98 for the flights directly. The family learned the 'Travel Villas' listing had been 'cloned' from another website called Oliver's Travels, and after calling the company, who confirmed the villa was fully booked, Emma realised the mistake she had made.
She said the three children, Scarlette and Henri, both 17, and Xander, 14, were left devastated."We started telling the children that we weren't going, which was awful because they had their suitcases packed and they were all excited," Emma told PA Real Life.
"Devastated children is the word, one didn't speak for a day."
Emma, a mental health and wellbeing strategist from Chorley, then battled for months trying to get their money back for the villa and although they were eventually successful, the money for the flights has not been recovered as Ryanair was not at fault. Emma's family had saved for months for the much-needed
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