Angela Dang is one of around 300 students who say they were duped into buying a fake airline ticket to Vietnam.
She says friends recommended she purchase her tickets through a women selling them on a Facebook page.
Ms Dang says the woman's service was known for selling reliable and cheap tickets and was widely used within the Vietnamese international student community.
"I asked a lot of my friends and they have travelled with her last year and they told me her service was good, everything went well, they went back to Vietnam and there was no problem at the airport. And she also offered cheaper tickets than travel agents."
Ms Dang, a student at the University of Technology Sydney, sent the woman around $1700 for two return tickets to Vietnam - only discover they were fake.
"After I transferred the money she sent me an e-ticket online but then later on I realised it was just a fake e-ticket, it wasn't a valid one when I checked with Vietnam airlines."
Zao Hoang Ahn Zao is also an International student at the University of Technology Sydney.
He too, was recommended the service by some friends and fell victim to the scam.
"I wanted to buy a ticket to come back to my country in my holidays and then I told my friend to buy a ticket and when she bought that, when I come to the Vietnam Airline to check it, he said it's not working."
Ms Dang says some friends are unable to return to Australia because while their airfare to Vietnam was valid, their return ticket was not.
"A lot of my friends are still stuck in Vietnam. So they purchased return tickets but they actually only get single, like one-way tickets."
Last week, a 24-year-old Vietnamese woman was arrested and charged with ten counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception.
Detective Superintendent Gavin Dengate has told the ABC the woman allegedly began the scam by selling legitimate airfares on Facebook.
"The person was smart in that they got a bit of notoriety, or got some positive remarks for actually doing the right thing to start with, but then has gone into this fraud in a way that's deceived all the students - thinking that they were a reputable business when in fact that wasn't the case."
Mr Dengate has warned people - in particular, international students - to be cautious of such scams.
The accused woman has been granted conditional bail and is expected to appear in court on February the 3rd.
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