A 57-year-old businesswoman describes how a serial conman stole her heart and her money.
Vicky was looking for love when she first braved the world of online dating. The 57-year-old businesswoman from Essex instead found someone who duped her out of thousands of pounds.
Vicky, not her real name, says she is trying to rescue some confidence via an Essex Police dedicated support group for romance fraud victims. Here, in her own words, she recalls what happened.Vicky, not her real name due to her identity being protected, shared her story with BBC Look East journalist Debbie Tubby
I was looking for love. I wanted to spend the rest of my life with somebody. I didn't want to be on my own. I wanted to go on holiday with someone; go out for dinner. I wanted to do all those things that I hadn't done with somebody for such a long time.Action Fraud has received 7,938 reports of romance fraud since January 2022, with about 200 of those reports first made to Essex Police
He kept phoning me and he made me feel like this was going to be something really special, that now we were going to go into a relationship.I was supposed to be helping him out with an investment he was going to make and he promised that he would pay me the full amount back by a certain date and that date came and went and it carried on and carried on.
You don't realise he is making mental notes of how he is going to extort money from you and that's the thing that I find really difficult, that it was all a lie. How can someone be so convincing?Emmanual Scotts, from Fulham, was given a 12-year prison sentence at Kingston Crown Court in November
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