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'I'm scared to tell parents I was conned'

Juliana Vasquez paid £2600 � the price of half a home in Colombia � to study English. Now she is left with nothing, write Andrew Denholm and Calum Macdonald.

When Juliana Vasquez arrived in Scotland from her home in Colombia three weeks ago to begin a nine-month English tuition course, she came with all the excitement of a 20-year-old away from home for the first time.