An elderly Masterton couple who fell victim to overseas lottery scammers are yet to pay back any money borrowed from multiple friends and acquaintances, or to sell their house as promised more than six months ago.
Bev and Trevor Oliver exhausted their own savings and borrowed thousands of dollars to pay into an online Ghanaian scam, believing they would had won a lottery and would collect more than €850,000 ($1.3 million).
In July, the couple finally conceded they had been duped and declared they would have to sell their $500,000-plus home to pay back their debts.
But last week Mr Oliver admitted none of the people they had borrowed from have received any money back.
He also confirmed the house was not yet on the market, although he said real estate firms had been to the house and had appraised it.