A Facebook con forced Lucy Cavendish to confront her chaotic relationship with money: she realised she had three gym memberships and six Netflix accounts
sting. I feel incredibly ashamed even writing these words. However, even though it’s very embarrassing to own up to the fact that I made a set of stratospherically bad decisions, I also think it is important for everyone to know how easy it is for us to fall for the endless
Such was my shame at my fall from grace after my divorce, that when something flashed up on my social media algorithm in a post on Facebook apparently from the much trusted financial advisor, I clicked. I was desperate to be able to take the children on holiday or even a weekend break away. Somehow, this all worked until after I had invested £25k in the space of two weeks and my bank called me and said “this is a scam”. I collapsed and burst into tears. I couldn’t get the money back as I had invested it willingly and the consequences were that money had absolutely gone. It is a very sophisticated scam which involves you putting your money into a wallet which means you are willingly converting your money into online currencies and the banks are not responsible for that.
As I contemplated the reasons behind my relationship with money I realised I’ve had a lot of conflicting messages around it since I was a child. My parents were both essentially socialists and I saw them give most of what they earned away. It took a lot of honesty to be very clear about this with myself and to confront the need for change. First I contacted my brother, who is very good with money because he is an economist. He drove down the motorway and sat down with me and talked to me about how I should manage my money. He put me in touch with his financial advisor.
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