‘Tinder Swindler’ conned vulnerable woman he met on dating app out of £157,000

Conman who used dating apps to prey on women for cash is jailed Credit Nottinghamshire Police / SWNS
Frank Adozi, 32, used a faux identify and profile simply two years after serving jail time for related crimes (Image: Nottinghamshire Police / SWNS)

A convicted romance fraudster who used courting websites to dupe ladies out of hundreds of kilos is again behind bars for 4 years.

Frank Adozi used a faux identify and profile and tricked one ‘weak’ lady out of greater than £157,000.

He used his ill-gotten good points to fund an unique life-style, shopping for designer garments, a high-end Vary Rover and enormous quantities of jewelry.

His sufferer stated the 32-year-old, who claimed he was 60, ‘got here throughout as a pleasant household man who was down-to-earth and real’.

Adozi informed her he labored on an oil rig and had taken the fallacious financial institution card with him.

His sufferer despatched him 34 transactions over two months earlier than she turned suspicious in Could 2021 when he stated he was on a flight to Dubai that didn't exist.

When police checked his cell phone after a visitors cease in January, they discovered he had conned a minimum of six different ladies out of just about £3,000 in whole.

Adozi, of Nottingham, pleaded responsible to false illustration when he appeared on the metropolis’s crown courtroom.

He had beforehand served 4 and a half years for related offences and was launched from jail in 2020.

Detective constable Carl Miller, of Nottinghamshire Police’s fraud investigation group, stated: ‘Adozi had no regard for his victims.

‘He went to nice lengths to construct rapport and achieve their belief, earlier than fabricating tales to use them out of hundreds.’

A number of so-called Tinder Swindlers – a time period used to explain romance fraudsters who use courting apps to con folks out of cash – have come to mild after the discharge of a true-crime documentary on Netflix which tells the story of Simon Leviev and the way he conned a number of ladies by pretending to be a wealthy diamond mogul.

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