New Zealand grandmother Sharon Armstrong paid a high price for falling in love with a man she met online. Via insightSBS.
Sharon Armstrong fell in love with a man she met online. Five months later, she was arrested in Argentina with five kilos of cocaine in her luggage.
‘Frank’ was a handsome Australian engineer who claimed to be living 20 minutes away. After ten days of getting to know each other on the phone, they arranged to meet. But that meeting never took place. ‘Frank’ was suddenly on his way to London for a new job. “I don’t think there was a ‘Frank’. I’m more likely to believe that it was, if not a drug cartel, certainly a network behind it. Certainly not one person, in my case,” said Sharon.
“In my experience I think law enforcement generally tends to lack the motivation, the training and the resources to really do this sort of work,” said Andrew.“I think there is a massive underreporting of this worldwide,” said Andrew.Cecilie told how she was conned by the man who called himself Simone Leviev in the Netflix documentary ‘The Tinder Swindler’ earlier this year. Hayut is living a free life in Israel and has never been charged for the alleged crimes he committed against her.
“It was always the credit card, but a credit card is maxed out. So, he needed more money on the credit card. So, I started taking out loans to then fill up the credit cards for him. It ended up with over 200,000 pounds.”Overwhelmed by her debts, Cecilie contacted American Express and two special security agents were sent to her work. She discovered ‘Simon’s’ real name was Shimon Hayut and he had already served two years in a Finnish prison for defrauding women.
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