“I’m usually so hot on checking online sellers,” Andy Gerlis says ruefully. “But I was in a rush and I thought I was getting a bargain – so I snapped it up.”

Last year the social media executive, who is in his mid-twenties, fell victim to a scam when searching for a rare video game online.

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