{"id":84859,"date":"2026-02-13T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84859"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:41:07","slug":"bbc-catfishes-romance-scammer-who-was-back-on-dating-app-days-after-jail-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/13\/bbc-catfishes-romance-scammer-who-was-back-on-dating-app-days-after-jail-release\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC catfishes romance scammer who was back on dating app days after jail release"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2560\/cpsprodpb\/e8ea\/live\/3c9363a0-fc79-11f0-8e2e-b175b7c5e0d9.jpg\" alt=\"Raymond McDonald, a man in his fifties, is walking away from Philippa Goymer who is a BBC journalist. She is dressed in black and has long dark hair and is carrying a large microphone. He has a black jacket, blue jeans and has his hands in his pockets. Behind them both is a brick built building and a white car is parked to the side.\" width=\"632\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Within days of being released from his seventh prison term for romance fraud, Raymond McDonald was back on a dating app looking for his next victim.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj0np329lmeo\"> Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>Within days of being released from his seventh prison term for romance fraud, Raymond McDonald was back on a dating app looking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84859","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\/2026\/02\/Raymond-McDonald.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84859","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=84859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84861,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84859\/revisions\/84861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}