A 53-year-old man from the United States, a contractor by profession, widowed for two years and currently living with his two children and his mother. This is how a new alleged love scammer appears before his victims. After trying to seduce an editor of Espejo Público through messages and asking for money, more women have denounced him.
Anna is one of them. The alleged scammer contacted her through Facebook and from there the conversations were transferred to the WhatsApp application. After telling him facts about her life, fictitious about her, she tells him that she needs money to buy a plane ticket, to fly from the United States to Spain. At that moment is when Ana decides to stop the scam attempt.
Up to this point, these are some of the messages Ana received: “Last night I dreamed of you, thanks for banishing my nightmares. I hope you woke up with a smile on your face.” So little by little she was seducing her possible victim until she offered him the chance to meet and told him to send her her location.
“This is my location right now. It hurts a lot that you don’t trust me,” the alleged love scammer says in the messages. When they talk about seeing each other, he justifies himself like this: “I didn’t know you would come. You only said you were with your children. You don’t trust me and that’s why you’re doing this.”
“As he realized that I was two minutes away from him, he said he was leaving and he couldn’t see me”
Ana finally did not get to meet him. “He came to make a videoconference with me but he did not come out, his daughter came out,” she insists on her intervention in Espejo Público. In this case, she did not give money to the alleged scammer, but there are other cases in which transfers have been made, even large amounts of money.
Ana’s case is very similar to the one reported just a few days ago by an editor from Espejo Público. He was talking to her for at least 20 days until he ended up asking her for almost 100 euros.
