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He Pretended to Die: The Salford Man Who Bought Sympathy with Lies
He Pretended to Die: The Salford Man Who Bought Sympathy with Lies
They handed over life savings, cash in envelopes and entire retirement pots, while he bought fake blood from a joke shop and kept the receipts in a drawer; between 2000 and 2003 he defrauded neighbors and friends of roughly £200,000-£250,000 by pretending to have a terminal brain tumour. How did a young British Airways cabin crewman turn local trust into a multi-year con built on hospital stationery and a non-existent professor?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led from a BA uniform and an insider…
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