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A fraudster used a fake name to con a besotted British woman out of £10,000 before investigators found he had conned at least eight other victims.
The con artist, Osagie Aigbonohan, 40, who is originally from Lagos, Nigeria, used a number of false names to contact women through dating and social media sites.
According to the National Crime Agency (NCA), he cheated one woman out of nearly £10,000.
Investigators said he used the alias Tony Eden when he spoke to the besotted victim last year for 10 months via a dating site.
Aigbonohan persuaded the woman to lend him money so that he could buy equipment and machinery for his overseas business.
The victim made nine transfers to accounts which were under false names, according to the NCA.
Eventually the cash made its way into
