Meet the women scammed by the same ‘lottery-winning’ love rat
Christine and Wendy couldn’t believe their luck when they both found their new dream man. Both had bagged themself a lottery winning millionaire. The problem was, they’d met the same man, and he hadn’t won the lottery at all, in fact he was living out of his car.
They both fell prey to a love rat who would scam them out of thousands of pounds each. They join the roll call of victims who have lost a staggering amount of money in romance scams. One bank alone, Santander UK, has just reported £3.8 million stolen from customers in romance scams in the past six months. Head of the National Trading Standards Scams Team, Louise Baxter joins us to break down what a Romance Scam is and how we can spot them.