A married couple in the United Kingdom parted ways when the husband named Paul fell in love innocently with a Nigerian scammer posing as a woman online.
The couple and Kristen White on the laptop
An English married couple, Rebecca Lewis and her husband simply identified as Paul Rusher were separated for a period of one year after her husband came in contact with a very beautiful California lady, Kristen White on Facebook who claimed she was the daughter of a United States billionaire.
It was unknown to Paul, a facelss Nigerian scammer was behind the plot. After several months of chatting, Paul fell in love with the lady and was planning to settle down with her in marriage.
When Rebecca Lewis found out her fiance planned to leave her for a pretty blonde he had met online, her world fell apart. Messages on his laptop showed he had been flirting for months with the woman he had “met” weeks after proposing to her.
Picture of Russian model used for scam
The mystery woman had contacted Paul Rusher on social networking sites at least 10 times a day for months, after sending a Facebook friend request out of the blue.
Rebecca, 30, read the messages between them and saw that, despite never having met her, sales assistant Paul, 29, had declared his love to Kristen and told her he planned a future with her. When Rebecca confronted her fiance, he told her she was dumped and she packed her bags and left the home they shared.
But instead of moving on, devastated Rebecca became suspicious of Paul’s new romance and turned detective. She soon found he had been the victim of a romance scam, where fraudsters use pictures of Russian models to trick unsuspecting men into parting with thousands of pounds.
Instead of letting love rat Paul fall foul of the con, Rebecca intervened and stopped him giving £2,000 to Kristen, who had asked to borrow the money for flights so she could to join him in the UK.
She did a strong research on Kristen White and realized she was using the picture of a Russian model. The name was guilty of majo scams online. The messages were brought before Paul as an evidence that he was being scammed. At first he didn't believe as he tried obtaiing a loan from the bank to send to Kristen.
He later faced reality and accepted Kristen White didn't exist.
Rebecca was heartbroken by her husband's actions. Rebecca and Paul, who split in January 2013, kept in touch and a few months later, he admitted he still had feelings for her. He spent a year trying to win her back and they reunited in May 2014 after Rebecca decided to give him another chance.