When a Sydney woman met Kevin online, she was swept off her feet. He said all the right things and shared photos of his extended family and his impressive jet-set lifestyle.
“Everything he said was very sweet and very charming,” she said.
‘Kevin’ on the ski fields.Credit:Instagram
The photos of himself he sent were of a mature-age man on visits to Paris and London, skiing in Norway and drinking fine wine. There were selfies of him with his family, a video of his daughter playing piano and even one of him skydiving. He said he was a businessman based in Singapore and aged in his 40s.
“He was a good-looking man and well-dressed,” she said. “He was always eating good food, drinking good wine and travelling to great places.”
Kevin first made contact in response to her Instagram posting and she added him as a friend.
After months of late-night phone calls and online correspondence, the seduction was complete. Having gained her trust, Kevin casually introduced her to the MetaTrader 5 trading platform and persuaded her to invest more than $220,000 on cryptocurrency trading.
The victim of a romance scam.Credit:James Alcock
When it became clear she had no more money to invest, the scam quickly unravelled and her money was gone.
The Australian Federal Police issued a warning on Wednesday after 15 Australians, who thought they had found love, were identified as being money mules under a national anti-money laundering…
