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Fraud warning after romance scam costs woman her house
Dover Express
|June 19, 2025
KENT Police is warning people to beware of romance fraud after a resident was tricked out of almost £100,000 and ended up losing her home.
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The woman was contacted through social media in 2022 by a person purporting to be an American serviceman, at a time when she was vulnerable following a bereavement.
After a couple of years, she was persuaded they were in a relationship and, when he said he was deployed overseas and needed help with expenses, started to send him cash in the form of gift cards.
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