Sarah Bowles is articulate and bright. Here she talks about how she lost her life savings in India to fraudstersWhen Sarah Bowles woke up in a Berlin youth hostel on a chilly morning just before Christmas,she felt both sick and relieved. Sick because she knew that her £6500 life savings were lost and she would own to explain to her family why she was in Germany rather than travelling in India. And yet relieved that her ordeal was over, not least as she had avoided the genuine threat of ending up in prison.Her yarn? She had fallen for one of the growing number of ingenious jewellery scams being perpetrated against lone travellers – particularly in the Indian state of Goa, and but also elsewhere.
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Source: theguardian.com