‘He broke my heart’ Widow devastated after sending £20,000 to scammer she had fallen for

Eventually, Daniel claimed he was coming back to Leeds, and Debbie went to pick him up from the airport. When she did not see him, she knew something was wrong.

“At this point I started to panic, everyone was right, I was wrong. I’ve just lost £20,000,” she said.

After turning up at his address Daniel gave to her in Leeds, she realised that it was nothing that he had described to her.

She continued: “It was the heartbreak that I couldn’t deal with.”

When Daniel finally got back in touch with Debbie, he claimed he had been held by the Istanbul police for money laundering as he was carrying a lot of cash on him.

She was contacted by someone claiming to be from the Turkish authorities to identify his documents. However Debbie was not convinced and did not do it as she was convinced he was a scammer.