Tosin Femi Olasemo, 37 years old is one of them. He entered the United Kingdom on a student visa some years ago, but chose to prey on lonely women looking for genuine love.
Olasemi, based in Cardiff, Wales offered his female victims lies upon lies and depleted their bank accounts by as much as £400,000.
He did this by joining the dating website www.match.com, posing as a US Army captain Morgan Travis, serving in Afghanistan and stationed in Camp Joyce. He even used the picture of the soldier wearing full military uniform as his profile picture.
He began ‘intense online relationships’ with the women before beginning to ask for small amounts of money to help pay for leave to visit them over two years.
Prosecutor Ruth Smith said money soon started spiralling into a fortune after he had ‘brainwashed’ women into believing they were in a real relationship.
One woman sent the fake soldier over £250,000 in instalments, until her bankers raised the red flag and called the police, when she was on the verge of sending Olasemo two further money transfers of £40,000 and £150,000.
Read more about this fraudster in Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3162240/Fake-soldier-pretended-Army-Captain-Afghanistan-online-dating-site-trick-lonely-women-400-000.htmlShe then sent him a further £211,980 in order to secure the release of Travis.