Sugar baby conned out of thousands by man pretending to earn £50m a year

"James and I carried on chatting daily, and I couldn’t wait to see him again. When he suggested meeting that weekend, a thrill ran through me.

"We met for another lovely dinner, and after a night of wining and dining, I was excited when he said he was falling for me and wanted to see me again."

"One of [James'] members of staff had been negligent with his trading for the company, and he now had to pay a fine of £5,000 ($7,000) to bail him out. However, because it was James’ company that was in trouble, the banks had frozen his accounts and he couldn’t pay the fine.

"He even joked that this would be the last time I would see him as he could go to prison if he didn’t pay the fine."

"Later, James messaged me acting like everything was normal, apologizing for scaring me and promising to pay me back. He invited me out for dinner, saying he’d pick me up in a Ferrari to show everything was fine, but all my trust in him was gone.

"That night I searched his number on the Internet, and my heart dropped. He wasn’t ‘James Walsh’ at all."