Duncan James robbed of £5k after thieves ‘cleared out’ his bank account with scam email Updated: 3 Mar 2021, 6:03 DUNCAN James has told how he was robbed of £5,000 after falling for a scam email. Thieves "cleared out" his bank account after sending the Blue singer a fake email from HMRC. 3 James Duncan lost £5,000 to fraudstersCredit: The Mega Agency The 42-year-old - who is set to appear on The Circle's celebrity series - warned fans about being duped online. "There are lots of catfishes out there, you can never really trust anybody," he said. "We watch television programmes of awful situations where people have been completely taken advantage of to the point where they've been giving money to somebody to help them or they've been dating somebody that's not really who they say they are.