A woman located in Perth has been forced to stay homeless after losing more than Rs 4.3 crore ($ 780,000) in life saving while discovering online love. According to a report in News.com.au, 57 -year -old Annett Ford is now riding a couch in Western Australia and is expecting an affordable retirement village to secure housing as scammers are free.
Ms. Ford joined the dating pool after the 33 -year -long wedding ended in 2018 and her ex -husband left quickly. In search of her own love life, she joined a dating site called “lots of fish”, where she started talking to a man named ‘William’.
During several months, the stranger succeeded in winning the trust of Ms. Ford before asking her money. ‘Wlliam’ said they needed Rs 2,75,000 ($ 5000) as their wallet was stolen in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Ms. Ford said, “She said that he had mugged outside the site on which he was working (in Kuala Lumpur) and she for her wallet and her cards,” said Ms. Ford.
“The next thing I know he is in the hospital and I am being landed with a $ 5000 hospital payable to an Australian doctor. I (paid). Then there was a hotel bill, and he said that he did not pay the workers Can do not have access to his card.
The request for the money continued and by the time Ms. Ford suspected that she had done the scam, she was out of Rs 1.6 crore ($ 300,000), which led to her self-managed super fund. Despite reporting the case to the Australian federal police, Ms. Ford did not hear anything back.
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Second scam
Four years later, Ms. Ford came in front of another scammer – this time the name that went on Facebook, ‘Nelson’. The stranger told him that he lived in Amsterdam and was a friend at the Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who needed $ 2500 to help in the ongoing investigation.
Regarding the danger, he initially refused, but the stranger asked him to deposit the money sent to Bitcoin ATM. Ms. Ford said that the money was leaving to and out to her account, which she did not know about and before she could feel it, her account was out of Rs 1.5 crore ($ 280,000).
After losing everything, Ms. Ford is now begging the Australians not to be victims of such scams. Ms. Ford warned, “They say all the right things, they make you out of their feet, but they are going to take your money and they are going to break you.”
Last month, a British woman was estimated to be Rs 98.5 lakh (£ 92,300) after two decades of friend, scam a catfish scam against her.
