A serial romance fraudster who tricked women he met on the dating app Bumble to make bogus investments has been jailed. Vimal Popat, 41, posed as a successful Forex trader to persuade his smitten victims to invest their money in a non-existent business over a period of six years.
After striking up an online friendship, he would woo them to gain their trust and then promised them healthy profits through the purchase and sale of currencies.
In reality, the fraudster, from Slough, Berkshire, was scamming multiple victims out of money totalling over £440,000 and using it to finance his lifestyle and to gamble away at casinos.
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