Lynn said: “He led my mum on a wild goose chase. My mum was almost crying. She had been scammed out of money and was standing in the rain.” The 31-year-old, from Bellshill, tried to chase the man up for her cash and the family put out a warning on social media about him.
The cheat claimed the money was being transferred and said he’d meet Lynn at Glasgow Central to sort it out but never turned up.
Worryingly he also rang her up allegedly pretending to be a police officer threatening to charge her with slander. She said: “I thought to myself: ‘this guy is mental.’ I just wanted to do something nice and give my mum a break.”The alleged suspect cannot be named for legal reasons but it is understood he has a criminal record.
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