Woman, 83, conned out of £20,000 by online Scrabble romance scammer
An 83-year-old woman was duped out of more than £20,000 by a romance scammer she met while playing Scrabble online, police said.
The victim, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, fell for the fraudster, who posed as a 60-year-old American millionaire widower and said he would visit the UK to give her a second chance of love after her husband died a few years earlier.
The conman built a connection with the pensioner through the word game before he suggested they
