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Dear Katie,
I am a 50-year-old widowed single mother with a teenage daughter. I lost my brother to brain cancer in 2019 and then my dear husband to the same cruel disease in the spring of 2020.
It was right at the start of the pandemic and I was denied the chance to be with family or friends for support. But I survived and I started to rebuild my life.
In the autumn of last year I felt the time was right to find happiness again. I joined a dating site, where I struck up a connection with a man.
I had been warned by friends that people sometimes didn’t look like their profile photos, so naturally I was relieved when we video called and he looked just like his.
He told me that he had developed feelings for me, as I had for him. He was very caring, checking in on me every day.
Around mid-November he told me that his company was sending him on a trip to Frankfurt for a cryptocurrency expansion project for a month, after which we would meet each other.
During his time there he told me that he had been promoted to marketing director. He had a probationary task of finding investors, which would be quite challenging, he said.
On December 9 he first broached the topic of an investment. I was reluctant at first because I am very cautious financially. I told him I would need some time to think about it.
He sent me the company’s website and I was sent emails from…
