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5 days agoModel cons men out of thousands after lying about 80m inheritance
Model Gemma Kingsley was sentenced to over seven years in prison for defrauding men out of £150,000 by fabricating an inheritance.
I felt the need to gamble to try and get something back, this has led to me losing £93,000 to try and recoup the money I paid into Mowle's bank account, going into a deep state of depression and having to seek help via medication and counselling.
Tamsin met Mike in the summer of 2022. He was a mechanic in a garage that she walked past twice each day between home and work. After a while, he'd call out good morning or good evening and she'd wave and smile back. Then the exchanges got a little longer. (Hard day? Looking forward to dinner?) Six months later, Mike and Tamsin exchanged numbers. Within two years, her life was wrecked.
Hannah Beech, a New York Times reporter, gained rare access to one of Myanmar's notorious cyberscam centers to see how Chinese criminals have been targeting Americans in the middle of a war zone. Holy moly. Look at these phones. The floor is just littered with SIM cards. We're in Myanmar. Only weeks after rebel fighters took control of a cyberscam center near the border with Thailand.
On Indian matrimonial site Jeevansathi, meaning "life partner" in Hindi, he started talking to a woman who said her name was Rekha Shah. After months of talking on WhatsApp and video calls, she asked him if he would invest in crypto trading with her - a decision which caused him to lose his life savings and left him feeling suicidal.