Postman loses £130,000 after falling victim to fake profile scam
The Daily Mail has a report on how Shane Symington from Portsmouth has sank into depression and debt after handing over £130,000 in an internet scam involving Nigerian fraudsters on MySpace who duped him by pretending to be a stunningly pretty American woman named ‘Angela Gates’.
The scurilous fraudsters even continued with the scam after he realised the deception by tricking him into engaging with a bogus FBI website which tricked more money out of him in order to pay legal expenses and the cost for agents to retrieve his lost money.
He said: ‘I feel sick from it all, I feel disillusioned, they have just played on my good nature. I’ve lost my life-savings, I have two loans and credit card debts, I’m in huge debts because of all of this…. …Before this happened, I used to go out every night, now I just stay in because I’ve lost all the self-confidence in my life and I don’t have the money to go out any more. I’ve also had five weeks off with depression from work… …It’s just wicked people getting everything they can get out of people… …You just can’t trust anyone on the internet. I want to warn people but I know I won’t be the last to fall for something like this.’
Detective Constable Jon Knox, of Hampshire Police, added: ‘This is a very sad situation, and this man has now parted with a huge sums of money through his own good nature – in trying to help others and then to recover some of what he had lost… …We do not want anyone else to fall foul of this kind of shocking activity and I would warn anyone who is asked for money over the internet by people they do not know to refuse and not put yourself at risk.’
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