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'I was looking for love but Facebook fraudster duped me into giving them £35,000'

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Scammers are targeting lonely ­singles on dating sites with the prospect of love – and money. The crooks set up false profiles to woo their victims before sweet-talking them into a get-rich-quick scheme.

It involves downloading a currency trading phone app tempting users to plough savings into a foreign exchange investment company.

But both the app and the firm are fake. The worldwide con has been reported to British fraudbusters. Ex-detective Mark Williams-Thomas told us: “It’s a sophisticated scam worth millions and is operating all over the globe.” Victims here include maths tutor Eva Kedoula, 53, who lost £35,000.

She was duped by a profile on Facebook Dating, falling for a 34-year-old single man called Jesse. What do you think? Have

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