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$300,000 MISSION I CONNED my conman!

Emma Ferris, 38, Otago, NZ

Typing Andrew Thomson into Google, I hit search. Andrew, then 37, and I were chatting on a dating app, and I was curious about him.

You won’t find me online, he’d said.

After being a victim of ID theft, he’d wiped himself off the internet.

He was right – I couldn’t find him.

That’s weird, I thought, but I didn’t see any harm in meeting him for coffee.

Greeting Andrew at a cafe in October 2018, I noticed he had a nice smile

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