A British man scammed of £20,000 after sending money to a fake African girlfriend he met online, actually believed he was going to meet with the love of his life at the airport in his home country..

Simon Frost, 75, could not believe his luck when he was matched with Eva – a young beauty who spoke of setting up home with him.

But the woman in the pictures was really US porn star Briana Lee, 28, whose photo has been lifted repeatedly by cheats for this very purpose.


Grandad Simon turned to internet dating after his wife of 10 years left him.

He joined a website called Real Sex Contacts in February 2017 and two months later was introduced to Eva, supposedly a hospital worker from Ghanaian capital Accra.

She sent a picture, Simon fell in love and he was persuaded to part with more than £19,000.

In an exchange of messages she even teased out information about his bank cards.

But when the time came for them to meet in the UK in August this year, Eva didn’t show up and he has not heard from her since.

Simon, from Soham, Cambs, said he was speaking out to stop others falling for the same scam.

He said:

“I genuinely believed the relationship was real. I don’t understand why anyone would treat me like that. I had good intentions and was looking for a genuine relationship.

“It has put me off trying anything like this ever again. I would rather be lonely than go through all of this trauma.”

Simon said he and Eva had called each other “babe” and “husband” and talked of buying a house for a new life together. But she was spinning a web of lies to get him to part with his dosh.

She said she needed cash to get court documents so that she could access her father’s £5million inheritance which included a stash of gold.

Simon sent £6,000 savings, £3,000 on credit cards and two £5,000 advances from payday loan company Amigo.

He also paid £1,600 for Eva’s flight to the UK in August this year – when he expected her to repay him.

But Eva failed to turn up and when he was unable to contact her it became clear he had been scammed.

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I'm doing this not just in light of the fact that these organizations squander people's chance, vitality and T-reasonable going to such interviews, yet additionally in light of the fact that the greater part of these scammers blackmail cash from hapless job searchers subsequently making their torment times two.

Envision a scammer blackmailing #10,500 from a graduate who have been jobless for quite a long time, not to discussion of the vehicle toll squandered going to such vain interviews or job talk as they generally call it.

A few people even get cash to pay these sheep in posers, them paradise on earth. Some will reveal to you that you will make a large portion of a million inside 1 month what not. In case you're not watchful, you will take a credit that you won't have the capacity to reimburse along these lines causing humiliation and absence of rest of brain. A jobless individual ought to have just himself to stress over, not having obligations too.

So I trust that in the event that we are legitimately guided, we won't fall under the control of these scammers.

Having said that, there are courses by which one can recognize a phony or scam interview welcome and there fore maintain a strategic distance from such exercise in futility and cash. The good thing is that the vast majority of their messages come in a similar configuration, so you will know its phony!

1. The message does not manage an organization name: the majority of these scammers wo exclude their names on the message you will get. All you will see are the address, the time and date and a telephone number. An authentic organization won't conceal its personality from a potential representative.

2. The message will state "interview/job preparation": whatever job instructions implies I don't have a clue!

3. You will see a code or reference: something like "HR=0056" or "REF=002". This means that the code number of the individual who welcomed you to the "job preparation".

4. It will contain a telephone number: this is the quantity of your referrer. Most veritable organizations don't give telephone numbers.

5. You will see HR Admin in the message rather than organization name

6. In the event that you call their number, they will be hesitant to give data on the organization.

Also, if you don't mind disregard those people sharing job flyers in the city, and those ones they glue on dividers. Those are scammers and a few ritualists as well. And furthermore a large portion of these alleged offices are roads for hoodwinking clueless job searchers. If it's not too much trouble sparkle your eyes well.

I will post the names of some of these phony organizations/offices later.

It would be ideal if you on the off chance that you have any encounters in the hands of these scammers generously share it here with the goal that others can learn and maintain a strategic distance from them as well. Much obliged to you!

Cheers!