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Man Conned By False Woman On FaceBook

By Staff

Man Conned
A Manchester United fan was set up by two Liverpool fans to get even. Stuart Sam is a 39 year old married man, who had been chatting with a girl called Emma at the FaceBook .

After getting intimate on messages, the girl asked him to meet her at an isolated farmhouse located in Scotland. He drove 400 miles for nine hours and was kept waiting for another three hours in the car when he arrived at the deserted house. After a while he received a call from one of the two men who told him in a Liverpudlian accent that it was all a con.

The humiliation did not stop here, they further recorded the conversation and put it on FaceBook and video sharing website on YouTube, along with an embarrassing photograph.

"It was a cruel thing to do. I've been taken for a ride. They wound me up good and proper," the Telegraph quoted him as saying.

The Manchester fan had met the two Liverpool fans last November and had indulged in to a heated conversation about the teams. He was even thrown in to the pool where he broke his leg, not satisfied the two men further scammed to humiliate him by setting up a false profile in the FaceBook, pretending to be a girl called Emma. From Scotland.

"There's no doubt that I've been done good and proper by the lads from Liverpool. It was cruel but I'll hold my hands up and say they really wound me up," Slann said.

"I'd been chatting to this girl on Facebook for about a month or so. I really thought she was genuine, and I had no reason to doubt it.

"On the night she asked me to Scotland I was on the road for about nine hours. And then when I got to this remote farm she sent me a text to say she was still in work.

"That's what made it worse, not only had I driven for nine hours, but I had to wait for about another three and a half hours for her to finish work.

"Then when I got the call to say it was all a hoax I just felt awful. "If they had asked to drive to Manchester, Leeds or even Liverpool it wouldn't have been so bad and maybe I'd have seen the funny side.

"But to drag me all the way to Aberdeen was just cruel. "When I met the lads on holiday I thought they were alright and we had a bit of banter over football and they threw me in the pool," he added. AGENCIES

Story first published: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 11:08 [IST]