McAvoy nearly fell victim to vacation scam

James McAvoy was almost scammed out of nearly $13,000 while planning a family vacation to Spain.

The 39-year-old actor, who shares son Brendan with exwife Anne-Marie Duff, took to Instagram to share videos of himself warning others not to fall for the con.

“Hello, there! I’m James McAvoy. I have just avoided being scammed through a cyber scamming scheme online and I’m just making this

video to draw your attention to it,” he said in the video, explaining that he had been attempting to book a trip to the The RitzCarlton in Tenerife, Spain.

Telling fans the website he found was “actually better” than the hotel’s real homepage, McAvoy added: “Don’t use them. They nearly took 10 grand off of me, which is a ton of money. Some guy called Joaquin emailing me back and forth, (I) nearly made a bank transfer. Very convincing.”

According to McAvoy he had filled out a booking form and was then asked to “make a payment via a bank transfer after sending them a picture” of his passport.

But McAvoy decided to ask a travel expert for advice. “I just thought the deal seemed too good to be true so I double-checked it with a travel agent and it was, of course, a tenth of the price that it should be,” he said. “So I’m not going on that holiday!”