An Adelaide man has taken to social media to describe a disastrous experience with scammers that ruined his New Year's Eve, saying he and more than 100 other revellers were conned by a fake yacht party.
But he said that the boat, which was meant to collect revellers at Glenelg, never arrivedTikTok user Jayden Clark said he bought a $130 ticket for a boat party which was supposed to be picking up a large group of people at Glenelg shortly before the beachside suburb's popular fireworks display.
"We arrived at 8pm, the boat was supposed to leave at 8:30pm, and essentially slowly more and more people started to arrive. There's no boat," he said."We started to freak out a little and we … were all trying to figure out what the hell was happening."Glenelg is perennially popular with New Year's Eve revellers, but Mr Clark said excitement turned to dismay for those waiting for the boat.
He estimated that a total of $12,000 had been lost to the scam, and said that figure did not include the Uber fares of some who had travelled to Glenelg for the event.
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