Mum with sleep-shopping disorder scammed after sharing bank details while asleep
A mum with rare sleep disorder has been scammed - after filling in her bank details on a dodgy site while online shopping in her sleep.
Kelly Knipes, 42, began to notice she was sleepwalking regularly after the birth of her first child Henry in 2006.
But the sleepwalking soon developed sleep shopping - a habit which has seen her splash £3k unknowingly while snoozing.
Purchases including a full-sized plastic basketball court and hundreds of pounds worth of Haribo sweets.
In March, Kelly received a spam text impersonating the government, offering financial assistance for her bills.
While sleeping, she gave the scammers her financial information and has since been targeted several times after she suspects they sold on her information.
Kelly Knipes, 42, began to notice she was sleepwalking regularly after the birth of her first child Henry in 2006.
But the sleepwalking soon developed sleep shopping - a habit which has seen her splash £3k unknowingly while snoozing.
Purchases including a full-sized plastic basketball court and hundreds of pounds worth of Haribo sweets.
In March, Kelly received a spam text impersonating the government, offering financial assistance for her bills.
While sleeping, she gave the scammers her financial information and has since been targeted several times after she suspects they sold on her information.
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00:00I started sleepwalking when I was younger, like as a child,
00:05but it wasn't very uncommon then, you know, most children can sleepwalk.
00:10And I left the home, knocked for friends in the middle of the night.
00:16But then it didn't, it wasn't a massive issue at the time.
00:20It was only later in my adult years that it got worse and more predominant.
00:27I used to leave the home, go out in the garden a lot,
00:31go into other people's gardens.
00:34And then I started shopping online.
00:39My first thing I ever brought online whilst asleep
00:41was £100 worth of Haribo sweets.
00:46I didn't realise until the morning that I had the confirmation email
00:50to say, like, your order's on its way.
00:53And then it kind of progressed from then.
00:55It was, like, odd little things to start with.
00:59Tins of paint, pepper pots.
01:02And then I progressed, I ordered a basketball court.
01:05That turned up and I had to, like, obviously ask the men to take it away
01:10because I didn't really knowingly know that I'd ordered that.
01:15I've had the Asda man come and bring me my cookie jars,
01:18£58 worth of cookie jars.
01:21That was quite comical, really.
01:24The list goes on.
01:27Yeah, I've ordered food, I've ordered reservations.
01:30I used to really weekly do an Argos reservation.
01:34And I'd wake up in the morning and see, you know, your order's ready to pick up.
01:40Things like fridges, tables.
01:43Really bizarre stuff that I don't need.
01:47I even ordered a pile of girls' clothes and I've only got boys.
01:51So I don't know really where it all comes from.
01:54But I was just ordering stuff.
01:56It started as, like, one or two things here and there.
01:59And then it progressed to, like, a weekly issue.
02:02And I was running out of money.
02:05Oh, God.