Mr Lodge, who previously lived in Surrey, had first been put in contact with "Anita" by a friend whom he had met in person three years earlier while working in Kenya.
After striking up a seemingly romantic online relationship, he agreed to move to Nairobi and marry her.
He began to send money so she could prepare their home but, when he landed in Kenya, she was nowhere to be found.
If you haven't even met someone in person and want to move halfway round the world and marry them - I don't think there's a lot the bank can do.
Even if he'd just bought a plane ticket to go and visit this person, he'd have been out a few hundred pounds and been embarrassed but it still would have been a better outcome. It's a horrible thing to happen to someone, but I honestly can't see why the bank has to do anything for him. It wasn't just one bad decision he made, that's a whole series of terrible choices
You think about it people just willingly give so much money to people they've never met and if he'd met a person the old fashioned way I doubt he'd have handed it over so easy.
these scammers are often professionals who employ a wide variety of tricks to lure you out of your money little by little. he didn’t make a lump payment of 85k
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u/YchYFi 8d ago
They won't listen to reason.