‘My best mate swindled £117,000 out of me by posing as my love interest online’
dailystar.co.ukITV’s This Morning about the impact it had on her.Speaking to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, Sue explained how Anna had preyed on her interest in a man to exploit her of money and giftsThe pair had met in 1999 while working in a supported living home.They soon struck up a friendship, and were on one of their typical nights out when Sue took a fancy to one of the club’s bouncers.But, when she told her friend this, Anna told her first lie, claiming that the man was her “uncle Ste”.
This sparked a trail of deceit.Years later, in 2011, Sue had been working as a qualified nurse, when she suddenly received a phone call from a man pretending to be the bouncer, Ste.He claimed that he had moved to the US, and had established a number of successful businesses in Las Vegas, before making an unusual request of Sue.“He wants a camcorder for Christmas, a HD one, he said that Anna wouldn’t get him one, and would I get him one for Christmas,” she said.At the time, Sue hadn’t thought of this as odd, as she was still receiving updates from Anna about her uncle’s life out in the States.Slowly, Anna started to increase the fraudulent requests on behalf of her made-up uncle, claiming that he had testicular cancer, causing Sue to become a willing victim of substantial losses.“She said that he needed to go to Maryland for experimental treatment in America, but she couldn’t pay it all herself, would I go halves?
I said okay.“It started off £1,000 a month but then it slowly rose over time. About two years into it he needed money for a flat because the hospital said he was getting too institutionalised and the flat was attached to the hospital so he’d still get his treatment.
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