A pair of romance fraudsters have been jailed for conning five victims they met on dating sites out of £200,000. Devious Fredrick Diji, 37, and Racquel Johnson, 43, used fake names on online dating sites such as match.com to target their victims during the complex fraud that cops described as the "ultimate manipulation."
One victim was scammed for 14 years before being told by police the person they were speaking to wasn’t real. They made their victims believe they were in a relationship with them before asking for money under false pretences, which they never intended to pay back.
The pair made absurd excuses to con their victims into handing over cash- including claiming they were stuck in Dutch customs and that they had been “kidnapped” and needed money to help secure their release. They forged documents such as death certificates and plane tickets to make their lies more believable.
