Burt, who lives in Weston-super-Mare, said she had saved up \u00a36,000 for her dream campervan.<\/p>\n
“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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
A few days after taking the campervan home, she found out it was a clone. <\/p>\n
The actual owner was a man from Italy who had bought it three years earlier and still officially owned it.<\/p>\n
“I was a little bit naive,” Burt said. <\/p>\n
“But I didn’t know what cloning was. I had never heard of cloning. <\/p>\n
“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. <\/p>\n
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