Stunning emails reveal how the woman accused of conning The Block has allegedly used the same trick of sending fake bank receipts to ‘prove’ she’d paid for things.
Cyber security consultant Emese Fajk, 28, blamed a property conveyancer when her attempt to buy Jimmy and Tam’s home for $4.2million fell over last month.
Ms Fajk, who claims to have worked with Apple and the United Nations, promised to rectify the situation in days and secure the 1950s-style home.
But her payment never arrived in Nine’s bank account – even after she sent producers screenshots showing she had apparently transferred the millions.
Now, Daily Mail Australia has obtained correspondence showing how a similar fate befell a European designer whose work Ms Fajk commissioned last year.
So much for that: ‘Cyber security expert’ Emese Fajk placed the winning $4.2million bid on Jimmy and Tam’s Block house… but it never arrived
In August last year, months before making the winning bid on Australia’s top-rated reality television program, the designer invoiced Ms Fajk 600 Euro.
‘I own a design company and she solicited us to create the branding for her new business,’ said the designer, who requested anonymity.
‘I, of course, never received what she owed me and heard a billion excuses about how her bank wasn’t cooperating but swore again and again that she paid me.’
The designer made the invoice out to Ms Fajk on August 19. Three days later, Ms Fajk messaged the businesswoman on Facebook, mostly in Hungarian, apologising for the delay in paying her bill.
‘Weekends are sacred,’ she wrote in English. Ms Fajk then sent an email to the designer with two screenshots attached.
One was from ANZ Bank showing a ‘paid international money transfer’ had occurred. A screenshot second showed that more than $AUD1000 had allegedly been transferred.
But the money still didn’t come through.
This is the email Ms Fajk sent (in Hungarian) to the designer, with screenshots attached showing that the funds had been transferred across…
The graphic designer received this ANZ screenshot from Ms Fajk. But the designer says the money never came
A separate banking screengrab sent to the designer by Ms Fajk to seemingly ‘prove’ the money had been paid
The designer and Ms Fajk then exchanged a series of emails and Facebook messages, largely in Hungarian, in the weeks that followed.
In one message, Ms Fajk said she had called the bank and claimed she was told transfers were taking longer than usual.
After three weeks, the designer questioned why such a simple bank transfer would take so long, even during a global pandemic.
The correspondence continued until October 14, when Ms Fajk apparently said she was in hotel quarantine in Sydney, had poor internet access on her mobile and would send the money as soon as possible.
‘I didn’t waste my time with her anymore after this,’ the designer said. The money never arrived.
A Facebook message (mostly in Hungarian) from Ms Fajk to the designer. ‘Weekends are sacred,’ Ms Fajk said, to explain why the payment hadn’t been made
Another Hungarian-language screenshot of the designer dealing with Ms Fajk, who also goes by the last name ‘Fayk’
When Ms Fajk was attempting to buy Jimmy and Tam’s painstakingly renovated home in December, she sent the show’s executive producer Julian Cress screenshots of payments made from her ANZ Pay Anyone account.
The screengrabs showed she had transferred her $426,500 deposit and the $4,072,951 for the final settlement to Property Exchange Australia (PEXA). But again, the money never came.
It is rare for property purchases to be conducted involving direct bank transfers. The money is instead typically withdrawn directly from accounts by PEXA.
Similarly, an ex-boyfriend of Ms Fajk’s alleged to A Current Affair that she had sent him a doctored receipt showing she had transferred 50,000 pounds from London’s Coutts bank in August 2018.
As the Mail reported last month, analysis by graphic designers conclusively revealed those documents had been altered.
This is the screengrab of an ANZ bank transfer which Emese Fajk sent to Channel Nine as proof she had paid $4,072,951 to buy Jimmy and Tam’s property on The Block. It never came
This grab shows how she allegedly paid the deposit the previous day on December 17. But the critical payment also didn’t arrive
This is the Coutts Bank document Emese Fajk is alleged to have sent to an ex-partner as evidence that she had paid them 50,000 pounds owing. (She denies having done so.) Photoshop experts said the receipt showed clear signs of being doctored – with a grey-and-white pattern showing where erasures have previously occurred
Daily Mail Australia approached Ms Fajk with questions about the designer’s fresh allegations this week. ‘I’m more then happy to sit down with anyone who would be interested and refute any of the allegations and claims against me,’ she said.
Pressed for a direct answer, she said: ‘I’m not going to send any documents etc over in emails. But I’m more than happy to show whatever is relevant, from the relevant sources so it can br (sic) verified, in person.’
Meanwhile, Ms Fajk claimed that despite her efforts, Nine hadn’t given her chance to sort out her ‘situation’ with The Block. ‘I contacted Channel9 on the 22nd and 23rd of December,’ she said.
‘I have not heard back since, therefore I was not given the chance to sort this situation out.’
Ms Fajk said she stood by a statement issued last year where she denied sending ‘bank statements to any former partners, so any allegations of a photoshopped version is incorrect.’ She claimed this ex-lover had made ‘vexatious and false’ claims and that she had endured threats from that person.
For The Block bungle, she heaped blame on an unnamed conveyancer, arguing she had an innocent explanation for what occurred.
‘Whilst there have been some delays caused by the conveyancer regarding the settlement of the property I bought at auction, it is still my intent to complete the payment as soon as possible,’ she said. It wasn’t to be.
Nine is yet to announce whether Jimmy and Tam have secured a new buyer.