Kate Garraway comforts GMB co-star as he admits 'I was lying on the floor numb'
Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway was left horrified after her co-star Noel Phillips opened up on the moment he was scammed out of his life savings
Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway was swift to express her worries as she confessed "I feel terrible" following a colleague's heartbreaking revelation about a recent incident that left him feeling "numb".
During Wednesday's (August 6) instalment of the ITV morning programme, Kate, alongside co-presenter Ed Balls, explored the day's top news headlines from Britain and around the world.
Yet it was one particular segment that became deeply moving when North American Correspondent Noel Phillips shared details of a terrifying experience with a banking fraudster, who exploited his personal information to pilfer his complete life savings.
Speaking to the programme through video link, Noel disclosed how con artists posed as representatives from Chase Bank, claiming his account had been breached.
He subsequently discovered it was a deception, yet despite his efforts to thwart the criminals, Noel found himself locked out of the banking network whilst his total life savings of nearly $30,000 was pilfered, reports the Mirror.
Noel Phillips recalled his chilling encounter with a bank scammer, who stole his entire life savings
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Struggling to hold back his emotions, Noel confessed: "I'm still in disbelief. I remember two weeks ago I was lying here in my kitchen on the floor numb and refusing to accept that I did something so stupid. I felt embarrassed, I felt ashamed, I felt worthless and on top of that the excruciating pain of all of this is the mental trauma."
He continued: "The fact that I for the last couple of days wake up in the middle of the night, pick up my phone and open my banking app in hopes that this was all a twisted reality. "How could someone like me who reports stories like this fall victim? How could this happen to me?"
Kate said: "Noel I feel terrible for you and as you say you will not be alone. Noel situation is a little bit tricky because the rules are different in America compared to the UK."
Kate opened up about her own experience with being scammed
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The TV presenter then seized the moment to reveal her own experience as she explained: "I was actually saved by the programme Traitors, yet to air. What happened to me is on the runway ready to fly to location, I got a phone call saying 'did you spend nearly £8,000 on Jacksonville voters at 2am this morning' and I said 'absolutely not'."
She went on: "They said we've frozen your account because you've been hacked and now a victim of fraud and I panicked because I was about to take off.
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"They said 'you must take the money out of all your other accounts because they'll be linked to this so if you give us the details we'll do it' but I said 'I'm about to take off so I can't' so when we landed there was a producer ready to take my phone because I couldn't have it and I said 'no I've been a victim of fraud'".
Kate further explained: "I had some pockets of cash because I was paying off chunks of debts and normally there would be no money in my account so I was panicking but after contacting someone at the bank they quickly text back and said it was completely wrong and if I gave them the details they would have taken it all."
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