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A reformed catfisher who stole $30,000 from four vulnerable women has revealed what victims need to watch out for and why he left his life of crime behind.
Christopher Maxwell, 34, from Nigeria, spent six years lying to women in order to fleece them out of thousands of dollars.
He targeted single women in the United States who were aged in their 50s and 60s, and told them he was a member of the US Army.
It wasn't until he conned a woman out of $20,000, causing her family to fall apart and her to spiral into depression, that he suddenly felt the urge to come clean and change his ways.
'I told them I wasn't allowed to do video calls because I was in the army and we weren't allowed to show where we were,' Mr Maxwell told Daily Mail Australia.
Mr Maxwell said his descent into the scamming world began when he was studying at university, admitting he struggled coping with the change of leaving home, so much that he couldn't always afford food.
Christopher Maxwell, 34, from Nigeria, spent six years lying to women in order to fleece them out of thousands of dollars. He now works for Social Catfish and helps potential victims know when they're going to be scammed
'My first year was kind of rough and by the second year I had saved a stranger's picture from Instagram onto my phone and started texting middle aged women who
