I was conned out of my £67,000 life savings by a loving, hunky ‘American oil rig worker’ who turned out to be a Nigerian romance fraudster

Ava Waller thought that he had found friendship in the following years – what he had instead was an calculated Con, who robbed him from every penny he had.

Harlow, a 76 -year -old grandmother of Essex Ava, before dry bleeding, sweet words and fake photographs surrounding him by a fraud of £ 67,000 by a fraud of £ 67,000 after the deception of heart attack and humiliation.

Speaking only with Mailonline divorced Ava, ‘David West’ posing as a fascinating American oil rig worker Nigeria posed by a fraudulent fraudulent Catfishing plot bravely told how to sacrifice.

In fact, ‘David’ was using the stolen photos of a real man whose image often used by scammers – Dr Mark Smith, a slipper in Indiana, was turning the desperate emergencies that he thought was forced to help.

“ `Me somewhere in the middle of the sea in an oil equipment told ‘he said. “ I have learned that it was a favorite job to claim that these people have had since then. ‘

Starting as a harmless online friendship in 2018 – he fired his photos when he complimented on Facebook – soon became a daily life line. Hunting his mother’s loss and sorrowful three -year -old hunting, admitted that attention has become a comfort.

“ I think we were talking to six months and then he was coming home, ” he remembered. “ `I stopped at the airport – something with drilling equipment – and told me that he needed money to solve himself. ‘

Ava, who was desperate to help the man he believed to fly back to start a new life with him, sent his first payment £ 250.

Speaking only with Mailonline, divorced Ava bravely explained how he was sacrificed to a detailed cat’s land posing as a fascinating American oil-Rig worker called ‘David West’ in Nigeria.

Ava, who was desperate to help the man he believed to have returned to start a new life with him, sent his first payment £ 250

Of course, it was just the beginning.

‘The first problem he needed money was to remove his equipment from the equipment. He told me he came home to America in a short time.

“ My mother has just died and left me home and I once had some money in the bank. Of course it was a great time for him. ‘

Soon, Harlow was transferring thousands of people through the bank after worrying about the visits of the local post office in Essex – refused to process their payments.

‘I am very sorry about it,’ Ava remembered. However, although he denied it, he knew that there was something inappropriate about the situation.

“ Then I started to send the money through banks, the different ones. My daughter is a bank manager, but I never used the bank because I knew it would stop me.

I was stupid. Probably in my heart, I knew that people were suspicious in the post office, but I wanted David to be real and the fairy tale to happen. How much cup I was! ‘

According to him, now in a network of psychological manipulation directed by a skillfully playing fraud in his emotions. When his father -in -law increased concerns, Ava faced ‘David’. But he was ready.

They all say that ‘he said. ‘You will get your money back.’

“ Was smart and knew how to continue to hang me, ” he confessed. “ `Was good with words and always had a really good excuse.

For example, her daughter had an accident. He couldn’t afford to pay medical invoices, so can I pay? … ‘

Ava admitted that the deception continued for two years, that it was the only one on £ 3K ‘suitor’. The couple even made a few speeches on Facebook Messenger.

“ “ I thought that the accent was more African than the American, ” he remembered. ‘But he had an answer for that, and he told me he was moving too much with his job.’

At one point, David promised to come to England and marry him, and they would take a ‘beautiful big house’ with large amounts of great amounts he was just short away from getting for the two.

Ava evacuated from the Heritage Nest-Egg had to take a mortgage to release an equity at home to buy a car.

Divorced Ava (in the picture), Nigeria ‘David West’ as a fascinating American oil-Rig worker, posing as a fraudulent fraud in Nigeria’da victim of a detailed Catfishing land fell.

“ Was smart and knew how to continue to hang me, ” he confessed. ‘He was good with words and there was always a really good excuse’

In 2020, when AVA was accepted with a life -threatening sepsis, only the scam appeared during a terrible hospital line.

His son Steven, next to the resuscitation room, he noticed that his phone was constantly buzzing with messages.

By opening his phone, Ava was delivered to his home, a so -called money package ‘David’ updated an avalanche of updates.

Further digging revealed that AVA has received such other packages and pays for various accounts, probably playing a wider money laundering ring without knowing.

“Everything was very embarrassing,” Ava remembered. “ “ I was in the hospital ward with everyone who listened to and my son said, “You pay all this money to a man you have never met!”

“ `Pdelend world when I collapsed about my ears I was sitting in tears.

“ My son called the police and took the cash bundle that came to office – about 600 £. At first, the police thought that they could do something about it, but they couldn’t do it because the money went abroad.

“ David, depending on which situation depends on the “other people” wanted to go. One name was Oghogho Ibinuvia and the other was Beverley Rojas. ‘

Despite deleting all the messages with David, there is a painful reminder of the ‘stupidity’ that still confesses spontaneously to all the money she sends to all the money she sends.

Ava confessed that the deception continued for two years, with the biggest payment of 3K £ ‘suitor’.

‘I just look at them and wonder how I can be so stupid?’ he said. ‘If I get more messages than people on social media – and believe me, I do it – I look at them again and remind myself of the lessons I have learned.’

Now, he’il control people as much as he can, and he’d learn how to search for reverse photos on Google images.

He said, ‘I will never send money to someone I never know’ and if anyone reads it, they should follow this only advice.

“ When I stopped sending the money to David was quite angry and abusive, so the mask fell, which helped me see more clearly.

“ He would have been texting me to tell me to sell the car or my house – nothing could stop him. He tried again about six months later, but I told him to push him.

‘Until then, I had created a quite different image from the handsome man he sent me – probably an ugly old Nigerian man was sitting in a Grotty apartment, a list of things to be told to his victims at home.’