Widowed by Scammer, Dies in Crash

0:00On April 22nd, a 69-year-old British woman named Janet Fordham lost up to 1 million pounds to romance scammers over five years, then flew to. Ghana hoping to get some cashback from a guy who promised help only to die in a car crash while he drove her around. The scams kicked off in 2017 when she hit up online dating sites and got hooked by fakes posing as a British army sergeant in Syria, needing aid for gold bars than a diplomat with crooks operating from the UK, Germany, the US, and Ghana. Her family in Devon and Cornwall police begged her to quit sending money through banks, post offices, even travel agents, but docs ruled her. Sound minded, so they couldn't force a stop. She even sold her home and Devon land to live in a caravan. In October 2022, a Ghanaian dude called Kofi, claiming doctor status from a phone shop gig, lured her to Acro with recovery talk. After romantic, she agreed to marry him. On Valentine's Day 2023, heading to meet his family about the wedding, their car flipped,

1:04no seat belt for her, fatal injuries, police. Cleared any foul play, just pinned him on a driving violation, underscoring how these frauds rec lives.