Derbyshire Live reports. Instead, he turned out to be Abdoulie Gassama, a con artist who scammed her out of more than £100,000 of life savings, leaving her financially ruined in just four months.Mrs Kaur says she recognises the circumstances of the scam sound embarrassing, but insists she was desperately trying to help save her family.She said: "In 2014 my husband was in a very bad way.
He was very ill and I pleaded with the doctors that he needed medication."I tried to access every service out there, but it just escalated and escalated.
I felt powerless to help him and I was at my lowest."Mrs Kaur says she was "very vulnerable" when she saw an advert for a man called Shaikh Riyad, whose real name was Abdoulie Gassama, who claimed he could.
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