Alan Davies has revealed that he gets scammed ‘relentlessly’ online – including spending £400 on a PS5 that never materialised and being hacked by a ‘bitcoin’ fraudster.
The QI star said he once nearly fell for a fake website when buying his kids Christmas gifts.
He also bemoaned that even when you are hacked it is ‘impossible’ to speak to a real person about it.
Davies was asked on The Infinite Monkey Cage podcast if he had ever been scammed.
The 58 year old said: ‘Relentlessly, at Christmas I had three Christmas lists from three children and I found every single gift on the site from all three lists, including a Lego set that was no longer made.
‘I nearly gave them £457 and then I thought ‘this is unlikely’ but I was scammed on a PS5 two years ago, that was £400 down the drain.
Alan Davies has revealed that he gets scammed ‘relentlessly’ online – including spending £400 on a PS5 that never materialised
The QI star said he once nearly fell for a fake website when buying his kids Christmas gifts. He also bemoaned that even when you are hacked it is ‘impossible’ to speak to a real person about it
Pictured: Permanent QI panelist Alan Davies with presenter Stephen Fry. Davies is a writer and comedian best-known for being a panelist on the quiz show QI and his role as the titular character on the mystery show Jonathan Creek
‘It’s now become almost impossible to contact an actual human being with any company you’re dealing with, my Twitter account was hacked by a bitcoin scammer and I couldn’t do anything about it.
‘They hacked into my email and I lost my 800,000 followers, not a big fish in the ocean but it was very helpful for me, if I was doing a tour or something.
‘Then I couldn’t get back into the account and they said we suspect you are a bot, we don’t know who you are and I responded ‘Google me’, I’m not hard to come by, but at no point in that process could I communicate with a human being.
‘What I do when I get the email I’m suspicious of is I have a look at the email address and it’s normally jeremy68qzynamibia and I think ‘hang on a minute, that isn’t Carphone Warehouse’.’
Davies is a writer and comedian best-known for being a panelist
on the quiz show QI and his role as the titular character on the mystery show Jonathan Creek.
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