A woman who was conned out of £100,000 by fraudsters she met on a dating website set up a sting that led to one of the men being arrested. Lynn Hawes sold jewellery, borrowed money from a friend, cashed in life assurance policies and took out a loan because she believed that it would help to unlock a £7 million inheritance. The “planned, complicated, sophisticated and systematic” scam went on for almost 18 months before Ms Hawes, 48, became suspicious and called police. The mother of five then strung along one of the conmen, Ajibola Daudu, 43, for two months before a meeting could be engineered and he was arrested. Daudu pleaded guilty at Chester crown court to one charge of fraud and was sentenced…

Source: The Times March 17, 2017 00:45 UTC