{"id":84608,"date":"2026-02-07T17:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84608"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:19:06","slug":"romance-fraudster-pleads-guilty-after-spinning-web-of-lies-to-con-men-out-of-over-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/07\/romance-fraudster-pleads-guilty-after-spinning-web-of-lies-to-con-men-out-of-over-100000\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance fraudster pleads guilty after spinning &#8216;web of lies&#8217; to con men out of over \u00a3100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VSgKm.img?w=534&amp;h=668&amp;m=6&amp;x=259&amp;y=348&amp;s=426&amp;d=426\" alt=\"Gemma Kingsley | Source: WILTSHIRE POLICE\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A romance fraudster who wove a &#8220;web of lies&#8221; and tricked men into spending tens of thousands of pounds to fund her luxury lifestyle has pleaded guilty to more than a dozen counts of theft and fraud. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/romance-fraudster-pleads-guilty-after-spinning-web-of-lies-to-con-men-out-of-over-100-000\/ar-AA1VSggU?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6987732112884a63b8e0d4f71e801efe&amp;ei=36\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A romance fraudster who wove a &#8220;web of lies&#8221; and tricked men into spending tens of thousands of pounds to fund her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-relationships"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Romance-scam-arrest.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84609,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84608\/revisions\/84609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}