A woman duped into paying £69,000 to a conman who posed as Scots singer Marti Pellow is using private investigators in a bid to track down the person responsible.
The mum, who we have agreed to only name as Claire, has vowed to “fight to the end” to track down the fraudster who tricked her into handing over cash instalments for months after contacting her online and convincing her he was the Wet Wet Wet star.
During the scam, Claire thought she was putting money towards a £940,000 house in Windsor after the individual promised they would move in together - and claimed he had received cash from ‘his godmother’ to secure a deposit.
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