Love Fraud: New Stan series reveals conman’s $1 million hustle – NEWS.com.au

It started, as these things so often do, with a spark. Single women divorced, searching, hopeful, lonely would come across the online dating profile of a man who called himself Richard Scott Smith (or Scott, or Mickey more on that later) and it was as if they had come upon buried treasure. Here was a man, in a suit, who claimed to be the full package. He was handsome, gainfully employed (Smith has identified himself to potential partners as everything from a pilot to a wine connoisseur and profe…

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