ITV Corrie and Hollyoaks' Adam Rickitt fights tears as he details being victim of horror scam

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Former Coronation Street and Hollyoaks star Adam Rickitt was close to tears as he told fans he had been scammed out of 'tens of thousands of pounds'.

The soap actor took to Instagram to share what happened in a bid to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. Adam, who originally played Nick Tilsley in Corrie from 1997 to 1999 before launching a pop career, said he felt 'stupid' for getting tricked and claimed that the convincing scammers 'knew everything about him'. "CONFESSION TIME!

I know a lot of people will laugh at me for this... but I want to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else," he penned alongside a video of himself speaking to the camera from inside his bar, in Knutsford, Cheshire, which he owns with TV presenter wife Katy. READ MORE: Jane McDonald shares plans to step back from limelight amid happy family news after heartache "I got completely scammed this week by some fraudsters impersonating @barclaysuk.

I was 100% sure it was the bank, that they were helping me and that I wasn't even transferring funds or giving any details away .Alas the former wasn't true...they managed to duplicate everything I thought to be safe...they knew EVERYTHING about me and my history with the bank... "I know we all think we know what to do or how to react...but honestly I have never known the stress it created over the course of the scam...