Alan Davies claims he’s scammed ‘relentlessly’ on-line with QI star revealing he spent £400 on a PS5 that by no means arrived and was hacked by a ‘bitcoin’ fraudster

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.

‘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.