Newlyweds saved £45,000 deposit towards their dream first home - then lost everything in a cruel new online scam

Sarah, 28, says: 'It makes me sick to my stomach that someone could even think of doing something like this. It was our money for our future, we had been saving for ages - and now it is gone.' The couple, who had hoped to buy a home in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, are the latest victims of a cruel online con that has hit homebuyers nationwide as fraudsters come up with new methods to try to dupe victims out of cash. A computer hacker monitors emails sent by a solicitor and a homebuyer.