Online Dating: Woman Scammed £6,000 by Male Stripper She met on a Dating Site

Charlotte and Mark Grace met on a online dating site
(Image: Matthew Usher Photography/Broadland Police)

An unsuspecting British woman was scammed by a man she meet on a dating site which left her broke and suicidal.

Tattooed male striper Mark Grace, 30, gave Charlotte, 26, a crippling debts of almost £6,000 for phones and loans.

Fortunately justice caught up with Mark, he was jailed for six years after complain by series of victims he targeted through dating apps and social media.

“I was minutes away from ending it all when I came my senses,” she said.

“Thank God I survived to see him get what he deserved.”
“I was a sucker for tattoos,” she recalled. “I’ve got a few myself and he had loads. that was what attracted me to him.

Charlotte showing the bill incurred from an-strange boyfriend
(Image: Matthew Usher Photography)

“He was kind, confident and full of compliments. I soon found myself falling for him.

“My grandad was poorly at the time, and when I took him to hospital for appointments Mark would come with me. When grandad died, Mark helped ferry relatives home from the funeral.

“I couldn’t have wished for a more caring and attentive boyfriend.”

Even his revelation that he earned his living as a stripper didn’t put her off.

“I was a bit taken aback at first, but he explained there was no sex involved and I told myself. ‘It’s just a job.’

“Everyone has to earn a living somehow. He was quite open about it.”

But four months later Grace began stripping... her of cash.

She said: “He told me he had a bad credit rating and needed a new phone so clients could call and book him.

“He suggested I get myself a new handset at the same time, so I took out
contracts for two new iPhones.

“He promised he’d pay me each month to cover the fees going out of my account.” But Grace kept both phones – and within days was begging for a loan.

“I told him straight. ‘No, I’ve just got two phones for you.’ He went on and on about it, pestering me for days to take out a loan for him. But I didn’t feel comfortable with it and told him so.

“Then, about a week later, he just vanished off the face of the earth.

“He blocked me on Facebook and social media. He refused to answer calls or texts.

Soon Charlotte began to get letters in her name from two other mobile phone providers chasing payments.

Grace had used her details to get more phones. And he’d also used them to borrow money from payday loan firms Wonga and Pounds to Pocket.

That is how is how it all happen