56 year old Jane Cole fell for 28yr old Nigerian man and got her heart broken

Jane fell for Nigerian Michael, a bartender, in
2005. She married him and then he decided he
wanted to live in England. Lol. Read the full story
below culled from UK Daily Mail
Jane Cole, 56, knew that The Gambia in Western
Africa had a reputation for being a hotbed of
holiday romances between young local men and
older British women.
But when she decided to take a break there with
her friend Vanessa in 2005, she never thought
she'd find herself caught up in one.
'I'm quite worldly-wise,' said Jane, from Rothwell,
who considered herself too sensible to get
embroiled with a younger man.
But then she met Michael, a 28-year-old Nigerian
bartender, and his charming, attentive nature
drew her in immediately.
Lobatan...lol. Continue....
Michael quickly made it clear he wanted more
than just a one-night stand while she was on
holiday in the country. He wanted a relationship.
'I was completely sucked in,' said Jane.
When Michael proposed, Jane decided to keep it a
secret from her younger sister Tracy, knowing she
would disapprove. Instead, she flew to The
Gambia and married him, leaving Tracy to call her
a fool.
Quickly, Jane began to see that she might have
been right.
Michael said he wanted to move into Jane's house
with her in the UK, even though she had set her
heart on a new life in The Gambia, as they had
discussed. Nonetheless, she loved him, so she
agreed.
But as soon as the couple arrived in the UK, Jane
began to question Michael's loyalty, especially
when he began disappearing for long periods.
After calling a number that appeared frequently
on his phone bill, she reached a woman with
whom Michael had been having a relationship for
six years.
'When I confronted Michael he just admitted it
and laughed. "People laugh then they see us
together," he said. I was devastated. My self-
confidence sunk to an all-time low. He had
drained me of everything, both financially and
emotionally.'
'I blamed myself for being foolish and falling for it.
I'm supposed to be intelligent but I never had an
inkling. I believed everything he said. And if he
had told me the woman was just a friend, I'd still
have believed him.'
Tracy admits worrying that her sister might take
her own life, because Michael had robbed her of
everything. But Jane is not alone when it comes
to confidence tricksters scamming women in
matters of the heart on holiday.
Around 1,000 British people are victims of dating
scams each year, according to the Office of
National Statistics.
In 2004, a smooth-talking gentleman named Rudi
Sloot began speaking to widow Jeanette Styles,
56, from Whitby, while in Sorrento, Italy.
Handsome and polite, he told her he worked as
an undercover agent in the White House.
'I fell for him. He seemed lovely. He came to see
me in England and never left. It felt like we'd
been together for years,' said Jeanette.
But before she knew it, Rudi was talking her into
buying him £17,000 cars and loaning him
money, always promising to pay her back but
never doing it.
One night, when he became aggressive, she
called the police. They came and arrested him
and revealed he was a wanted man, on the run
from Interpol for committing fraud and theft all
over the world.
'I felt emotionally betrayed,' said Jeanette. 'It was
a lot to deal with and I get quite emotional when I
think about it. I don't think I'll ever get over it.'
Jeanette is now rebuilding her life with her new
partner Adrian, a local chef, and Rudy is in jail,
but she has been left with the scars of her ordeal
with the man who called himself 'Rudi Sloot'.

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