She was convinced she was in a relationship with him
A family has claimed their cancer stricken mum was scammed out of her life savings by a Leeds man who convinced her to send him £9,000 in video game gift cards in the years before her death.
Believing the scammer's lies, Lindsey sent the man around £9,000 in video game gift cards over around four years but she had never met the man or spoke to him over the phone. Kayleigh said: "My mum had been deaf all of her life, and she was a drug addict but she was trying to turn her life around. When she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and they knew she wasn't going to live for much longer, they decided to let her 'do what she wanted.' Kayleigh said: "She fell out with a lot of people over it, and we tried as a family to be there for her.
"I'm presuming that he was demanding the money more and my mum got paid every month, but I think he was demanding it every week. He sometimes would say he needs it by midnight or by a certain date and it got to the point where my mum was literally begging people.
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