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    Widower, 69, left homeless after being conned out of £85,000 in cruel romance scam
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    Widower, 69, left homeless after being conned out of £85,000 in cruel romance scam

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    2. Fallen381angel on

      I don’t mean to sound harsh but why they fall for this I’ll never know! If someone came up to u in the street asked for all your money you would tell them to do one, yet someone tells u they love u an some sob story so u say yes it’s ridiculous

    3. Ok_Sandwich3162 on

      The mirror charges you a subscription to reject non-essential cookies now? I didn’t even think that was allowed!

    4. SlightWerewolf4428 on

      I feel very sorry for this guy.

      Yes, what he did was stupid, but people do stupid things when they’re blinded by something.

      I hope he is rehoused with priority and can salvage something out of this.

    5. itsheadfelloff on

      I know a lad who got conned out of £8k, not sure how it started but he got chatting to some *Filipino woman* online. Sent her money for hospital bills and home maintenance costs, eventually sent her money to buy a plane ticket to Heathrow. Obviously never showed up.

    6. woollyyellowduck on

      Seems to me the bank may have to provide some sort of recompense, based on what’s stated at the end of the article.

    7. lemon-fizz on

      Anyone else have little sympathy?

      This dude is 69 he’s not senile. He was lusting after a much younger woman half his age across the world. Probably just thinking with this dick not his brain.

    8. biosolendium on

      His wife passed away right before the pandemic.

      Lockdown happened and this man was all alone as the world went crazy forcing people to remain inside their homes.

      all the conditions were right for someone to groom and exploit his vulnerable state

    9. saxbophone on

      This story is a sad reminder to anyone who says that scammers from impoverished communities deserve less judgement because of it —the problem is that (as clearly demonstrated here), the mindset of these scammers is that **they will not stop**. They will _bleed you dry_ if you let them, and this goes far beyond crime of necessity into crime of greed.

    10. regprenticer on

      This one is quite unusual in that the guy in the story actually physically met a person while working in Nairobi, and he struck up a friendship with that person’s “Facebook friend” online. So it has a sound basis in reality for the victim.

      My wife taught English in Tanzania through Christian Aid when she left school (late 90s). She was in a small village by herself and it was a great experience…. But …. As the kids she taught started to get older they started to write to her in the UK asking for money. Their parents had thrown them out of the house, they couldn’t afford school, there were no jobs etc etc .

      It really upset my wife that something she’d done that was quite innocent, and that she had positive memories of, had slowly become a source of a money scam. None of those kids started out as scammers…. But eventually about a third of them though *”hold on, I’ve got a link to a westerner who I can ask for money”.*

    11. Enflamed-Pancake on

      I hope loneliness doesn’t make me vulnerable to this kind of scam as I age. I would imagine falling prey to this sort of thing would leave you with a lot of shame. Poor bloke.

    12. theluckieststar on

      I have no sympathy for this perverted old man touching his willy to pictures of women young enough to be his daughters.

    13. milkonyourmustache on

      Loneliness is a terrible state of mind and one that’s very easily exploited. He put too much trust in someone he’d never met because he was introduced by someone he thought he knew well enough.