Published on 12, July, 2020
So, this woman, from the West Midlands, claims she is facing bankruptcy after losing £113,000 to a scammer she met on a dating site. The man, who claimed he lived nearby, told her he had gone abroad for an engineering contract in Ukraine and then convinced her he needed money.
I feel for her, even the smartest people can still be scammed :( I hate that people do this to anyone, let alone someone lonely and vulnerable.
I'm betting it's fake - she's claiming a big number to make the Betabux offer a couple of thousand - if they might get something in return......
Haha! It does seem strange that these people can be so incredibly gullible. How could you give money to someone on a dating site you've never met? Unless you were so lonely that you'd lost all self-respect and/or you'd had a lobotomy.
There's a lot of lonely people out there - but when big numbers are mentioned, there's always a secondary scam.