Amy Hart, from Worthing, West Sussex, said she was scammed out of £5,000 by ⁘career criminals⁘ pretending to be her bank's action fraud line in May 2022.
The 33-year-old is leading a campaign warning people to be wary of scams in the lead up to Christmas.
Research by Microsoft has revealed that nearly 50% of people in England have been targeted by scams this year.
Ms Hart, who featured on the 2019 series of the dating reality TV show, said: ⁘It was everything I worked for, I was really worried.⁘
The mother-of-one added: ⁘They make you panic; they make you think time is of the essence. Afterwards I was like, 'I can't believe I've just done that'.
⁘I see myself as a very technically literate person. We may think scamming is for people who don't understand [technology] or older people. But anyone can be scammed.
Ms Hart said she received a call and did not recognise the number, but when she searched it online, it came up as her bank's fraud department.
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