After being a single parent for over 17 years, Patt signed up to a dating site to find “companionship”. She was contacted by a man who used a fake identity and alias ‘Morgan Giovanni’. They started a relationship and she eventually sent him £60,000.
On the BBC programme For Love or Money today, Kym Marsh and Ashley John-Baptiste uncovered the truth about the so-called ‘Morgan Giovanni’ in an effort to help Patt draw a line under the horrific online romance fraud she had fallen victim to.
Patt was made redundant from her job and her youngest daughter had gone to university when she signed up to the dating site.
She explained that Morgan claimed he was an Italian American boxing promoter based in Oregon. He also told her had a daughter.
Eventually they started messaging on WhatsApp and he asked for her address to send her flowers.
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She said: “I suppose when you’ve been a single parent for 17 years it’s nice to get flowers especially when you’ve just been made redundant.”
After a few weeks of talking, she claimed Morgan had asked her for £6,000 so that he could bid in a boxing tournament. He said he could not make the payment himself as his bank had frozen his account, so sent her his daughter’s bank account details. He promised Patt to pay her back.
Morgan sent Patt pictures of his passport, his daughter’s ID, as well as pictures of her credit cards to show her…
