Emese Fajk is ‘hiding’ in Madeira – a chain of Portugese islands in the North Atlantic – where she is known by the name Abigel Fuchs and has a dramatic new hairdo
While hiding out on an island off the coast of Portugal, the ‘international conwoman’ accused of trying to cheat The Block allegedly got sloppy.
So says her scorned ex-lover, who claims Emese Fajk has been caught doctoring bank statements once again.
Fajk, 28, allegedly sent her new landlord in the city of Funchal an ‘ANZ Bank’ screengrab showing she had ‘paid’ the rent on her two-bedroom apartment.
But there was a critical mistake in the supposedly automatically generated receipt: it said her payment had been made on April 9, 2020 – the wrong year.
‘This is … proof that it has been altered and tampered, and that it’s fake,’ said Fajk’s recent boyfriend Steve Silva. (Fajk was approached for comment).
Daily Mail Australia revealed at the weekend that Fajk had jetted out of Australia on February 18 for a new life.
She is living in Madeira, a chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, under the name ‘Abigel Fuchs’, while sporting a dramatic new look and a diving hobby.
This bank transfer slip allegedly supplied by Emese Fajk showed her paying a landlord $4,215 – but the date said the payment was made on April 9, 2020, in an apparent typo
Fajk’s departure from Australia came two months after her failed bid to buy Jimmy and Tam’s winning house on the nation’s top rating reality TV show was exposed.
But Fajk, who described herself as a cyber-security expert who worked with the United Nations, never managed to pay up for the property she bought at auction.
That was despite her sharing allegedly doctored ANZ screenshots with Nine which showed she had paid the outstanding $4.2million.
Messages between Fajk and her landlord in Madeira, obtained exclusively by Daily Mail Australia, show she appears to be walking a dangerous tightrope overseas.
‘Tic toc toc toc’: Trouble in paradise
After Fajk’s new boyfriend of some weeks recently learned of her true identity, she messaged her landlord to warn that the police had been outside her unit.
‘Steve is here with the police after he’s been … harassing me all day and I spoke to a lawyer and they can’t enter the building but the police won’t talk to me,’ she said.
‘What he is saying is all BS but I don’t want to see any doors knocked in.
The landlord replied ‘scammer! So what’s the plan?’ before grilling her if she had rorted the other local Airbnb she stayed in, as the ‘police told me yesterday’.
‘You bailed without paying from there.’
Daily Mail Australia has obtained WhatsApp messages between Emese Fajk (in grey) and her landlord (green)
In the messages, the landlord accuses Fajk of bailing without paying from an Airbnb
‘Tic toc tic toc’ he warns her as he awaits her payment of 200 Euros
Fajk replied: ‘Nope but I’m not going to argue about it’.
Fajk said she was going to pay the landlord 200 Euros that Wednesday. The landlord warned: ‘Wednesday. Don’t forget.
‘Tic toc tic toc. Better be careful soon (your) mug shot will be on all Funchal trees. Hahah.’
Fajk replied, with a laughing emoji: ‘Maybe that’s what I’m aiming for? Free advertising?’
The landlord, who Daily Mail Australia agreed not to name, shared an image of the bank slip Fajk had sent him showing the wrong date, and money that never came.
Accused of repeatedly doctoring bank slips
The latest screenshot is just one of several alleged fake bank slips produced by Fajk, who briefly studied photography at Sapienta University in Cluj Napoca, Romania.
The Block’s executive producer, Julian Cress, last year received two screenshots from Fajk. She claimed the screenshots showed she had paid the $426,500 deposit and $4,072,951 final settlement for Jimmy and Tam’s Palm Springs style home.
But that money never arrived and its method of transfer – payments made via internet banking to the property exchange platform PEXA – was unusual. Fajk blamed an unnamed conveyancer for the failed transaction.
Two other former acquaintances – a graphic designer and another alleged ex-boyfriend – have since come forward to claim they were victims to similar scams by Fajk.
Fajk denied ever sending one of the slips and did not respond to a request for comment about the other.
But it is The Block scandal continues to dog Fajk, who continued to make claims about having $4million to her ex-boyfriend, Mr Silva, as recently as April 15.
‘Yes, the money has been returned, but it’s sitting in a trust account,’ she claimed to Mr Silva in a Whatsapp message that day. ‘I also never said that it’s all my money. On the contrary. Everyone who was involved knew that most of the money isn’t mine.’
Emese Fajk briefly found a new flame in cryptocurrency trader Steve Silva upon arriving in Madeira. Above, during a date
Good place to escape to: The archipelago of Madeira (lower right, in green circle) is off the coast of Portugal and the north-western tip of Africa – far away from Australia
So much for that: ‘Cyber security expert’ Emese Fajk placed the winning $4.2million bid on Jimmy and Tam’s carefully renovated Block house… but it never arrived
Fajk also claimed she has to pay lawyers, a publicist and a reputation management company in Australia.
‘Strategy for dealing with that whole mess is going to be finished this month,’ she said. ‘And I’m kinda done with the publicist.’
But in something of a confession, Fajk admitted to Mr Silva that she was hiding from her troubles in Madeira, some 18,000km from Melbourne.
‘Yes, you’re right, I’m hiding. Not from the law … If I was in trouble with the law, I wouldn’t have been able to leave (Australia).
‘I’m hiding from my problems and my life.’
Fajk did not directly respond to questions about the new ANZ Bank screenshots, except to claim her ex-boyfriend ‘crossed some boundaries’ and went to the media after ‘he wasn’t able to pressure me into anything’.
Social media snapshots show life doesn’t seem too bad in Madeira.
Fajk is regularly pictured in wetsuits after dives off the coast and shares pictures of her morning cup of coffee on Instagram several times a week.
