I was widowed and lonely when I found love again – he defrauded me out of £16k

For four months, I had been sending money to a man I thought I was in a relationship with to help him out of a crisis. 

But when he told me he needed another £12,000, I realised something wasn’t right and I decided to confide in a friend. I told her the whole story, from start to finish, and she instantly