#276525 by TerranceBoyce
Fri Nov 27, 2015 7:17 pm
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lonely-heart-conmen-use-best-6915551?
27 NOV 2015
Lonely heart conmen use best-selling dating book to scam woman out of £1.6 MILLION
A wealthy woman was scammed out of £1.6million by lonely heart conmen using a best-selling pick-up manual.
The victim, in her 40s, believed she was in an online relationship with a divorced dad called Christian Anderson.
But in fact a gang of conmen including Ife Ojo, 31, and Olusegun Agbaje, 43, had invented the fictional rich engineer.
They duped her into giving them £1.6million for business projects and to free up a make-believe inheritance.
Student Ojo, of Peterborough, Cambs, and administrator Agbaje, of Hornchurch, Essex, have admitted conspiracy to defraud.
The case was adjourned by Basildon crown court for sentencing in January.
“Christian” first contacted the woman on dating website Match.com in February 2014.
Weeks later they met in person and he told her he was an engineer. Police say he told his victim he loved her and wanted to live with her.
But first he requested a series of loans.
She transferred more than £30,000 supposedly to help him pay import duty on machinery for a project in Benin, Africa.
Christian, who wrote seductive emails to her, also asked for £25,000 to pay a fine and more to free up an inheritance left by his mother.
These fictional fees included £113,000 for an “anti-terrorist certificate”.
The woman, who searched for a home for them to live in, met Christian’s “lawyer” and from March to December 2014 paid £1.6million into numerous bank accounts.
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