Scots woman loses £21k on gaming app after being conned by heartless internet fraudster

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Renfrewshire woman has been left devastated after she handed over more than £21k to a fraudster she met through an online gaming app.The 61-year-old victim was taken in by a callous conman who claimed he would send valuable items if she transferred cash.The woman sent various sums of money totalling more than £21,000 abroad after falling for the sophisticated scam.It’s understood the innocent victim began chatting with a scam artist via an online gaming app.He offered up valuable items that he claimed to have found, but said she would need to pay to have them shipped.But the promised bounty never arrived and the distraught woman, who is from the Inchinnan area, realised she had been duped out of thousands of pounds.She alerted the.