Burt, who lives in Weston-super-Mare, said she had saved up £6,000 for her dream campervan.
“I went home, did an HPI check, which I had to pay for. I went on a government website, looked at all the MOTs, they were all in order, it was taxed, insured, MOT all up to date, so I decided to buy it,” she said.
Looking back now, she said one of the first red flags was that the seller was insisting on wanting cash only and to meet somewhere other than their home.
A few days after taking the campervan home, she found out it was a clone.
The actual owner was a man from Italy who had bought it three years earlier and still officially owned it.
“I was a little bit naive,” Burt said.
“But I didn’t know what cloning was. I had never heard of cloning.
“It’s so wrong. I’d saved up for something that I really wanted and somebody has just put a number plate from another vehicle on it.
“They shouldn’t do it.”