A family say their cancer stricken mum gave her life savings of £9,000 to a scammer before she died - all in video game cards. Kayleigh Allen-Heyes' mum Lindsey Heyes, 45, passed away in July after a nearly a battle with terminal thymus and breast cancer.
But the 21-year-old says Lindsey had been scammed out of all of her money before she died. Lindsey believed that she was in a relationship with a man who claimed he was in the US Army and that he was currently based in Leeds, West Yorks,.
He convinced the mum-of-three that if she sent him gift cards, that he would be able to send her a huge sum of money - ranging from £25,000 to £75,000. Believing the scammer's lies, Lindsey sent the man around £9,000 in video game gift cards over around four years but she had never met the man or spoke to him over the phone.
