The elderly man was exchanging messages with a potential love interest on dating website 'Older Dating Online' in November 2019. “I became suspicious and contacted my bank to report the scam, but the money couldn’t be recovered,” Andrew said. found dating scams rose by 40 per cent in the year to April 2021, with over 7,500 reported cases. In many online dating scams, fraudsters claim that they need the money to travel to the UK to build a life together. In one case reported to Which?, the victim had a video call with someone she later discovered was using stolen video footage.

Source: Daily Mirror June 11, 2021 13:30 UTC