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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Antony Thrower & Joseph Ash

'I thought I was talking to a woman from a dating app - then I lost my £42,000 savings'

A chef lost his life savings when he trusted a woman he met online who scammed him out of tens of thousands of pounds.

Alexandr Gutu had been saving to buy his own home and eventually bring his family across from Moldova to live with him in Derbyshire.

He met a woman through a dating app who claimed her uncle could help him earn serious money through cryptocurrency.

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