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A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
« on: June 21, 2021, 11:07:56 PM »
A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
'I was such an idiot'




When a British charity worker got engaged to a young
Ukrainian woman, he thought he was building a new life
for them both in Odessa - he was wrong.


READ THE FULL STORY https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57358241

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Re: A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2021, 12:53:18 AM »
A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
'I was such an idiot'




When a British charity worker got engaged to a young
Ukrainian woman, he thought he was building a new life
for them both in Odessa - he was wrong.


READ THE FULL STORY https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57358241

 tiphat
Your link doesn’t work.

Try this one
Wedding Scam

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Re: A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2021, 04:24:25 AM »
A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
'I was such an idiot'




When a British charity worker got engaged to a young
Ukrainian woman, he thought he was building a new life
for them both in Odessa - he was wrong.


READ THE FULL STORY https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57358241

 tiphat

Sorry, I just copied and paste the link of the BBC site and added the blue colour for emphasis...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57358241

I don't know why isn't working.  Hope this one does.......thanks
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Re: A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2021, 07:20:26 AM »
It shows you there are still these suckers about.

Imagine if he'd have had the common sense to do some Googling and join here. He'd not have lost that money.
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Re: A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2021, 07:57:36 AM »
It shows you there are still these suckers about.

Imagine if he'd have had the common sense to do some Googling and join here. He'd not have lost that money.

As well as 'met' Andy, ms, and Wiz.
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Re: A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2021, 12:13:23 PM »
It shows you there are still these suckers about.

Imagine if he'd have had the common sense to do some Googling and join here. He'd not have lost that money.

As well as 'met' Andy, ms, and Wiz.

I guess he must not ever met a nice pussy-cat in his life neither he knew what to do ...with it
and she was a very clever woman and knew what to do to make him singing and giving her  plenty of money.  I guess together with her friend must have applied their expertise very well and made him smile...... so he gave them all his money!

AvHdb for your information My self and Manny we are still married to the same Russian woman we met.......

where YOU and ms still fighting windmills....... and you are still here watching the views and wares for sale, on the right list, of female products.......keep drinking and dreaming.

As about Andy I have no problem with his status everybody to his own.

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Re: A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2021, 01:52:00 PM »
It shows you there are still these suckers about.

Imagine if he'd have had the common sense to do some Googling and join here. He'd not have lost that money.

As well as 'met' Andy, ms, and Wiz.

I guess he must not ever met a nice pussy-cat in his life neither he knew what to do ...with it
and she was a very clever woman and knew what to do to make him singing and giving her  plenty of money.  I guess together with her friend must have applied their expertise very well and made him smile...... so he gave them all his money!

AvHdb for your information My self and Manny we are still married to the same Russian woman we met.......

where YOU and ms still fighting windmills....... and you are still here watching the views and wares for sale, on the right list, of female products.......keep drinking and dreaming.

As about Andy I have no problem with his status everybody to his own.

 ;D

Wiz, perhaps learning what is said in jest would be useful skill in life.
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