Heart-Breaking: 56 year old Jane Cole fell for 28yr old Nigerian man and got her heart broken

She married him and then he decided he wanted to live in
England. Read the full story below culled from UK Daily
Mail

Jane Cole, 56, knew that The Gambia in Western Africa had a
reputation for being a hotbed of holiday romances between
young local men and older British women.

But when she decided to take a break there with her friend
Vanessa in 2005, she never thought she'd find herself caught
up in one.

'I'm quite worldly-wise,' said Jane, from Rothwell, who
considered herself too sensible to get embroiled with a
younger man.

But then she met Michael, a 28-year-old Nigerian bartender,
and his charming, attentive nature drew her in immediately.

Michael quickly made it clear he wanted more than just a
one-night stand while she was on holiday in the country. He
wanted a relationship. 'I was completely sucked in,' said Jane.
When Michael proposed, Jane decided to keep it a secret from
her younger sister Tracy, knowing she would disapprove.

Instead, she flew to The Gambia and married him, leaving
Tracy to call her a fool.

Quickly, Jane began to see that she might have been right.
Michael said he wanted to move into Jane's house with her in
the UK, even though she had set her heart on a new life in
The Gambia, as they had discussed. Nonetheless, she loved
him, so she agreed.

But as soon as the couple arrived in the UK, Jane began to
question Michael's loyalty, especially when he began
disappearing for long periods.

After calling a number that appeared frequently on his phone
bill, she reached a woman with whom Michael had been
having a relationship for six years.

'When I confronted Michael he just admitted it and laughed.

"People laugh then they see us together," he said. I was
devastated. My self-confidence sunk to an all-time low. He
had drained me of everything, both financially and
emotionally.'

'I blamed myself for being foolish and falling for it. I'm
supposed to be intelligent but I never had an inkling. I
believed everything he said. And if he had told me the woman
was just a friend, I'd still have believed him.'

Tracy admits worrying that her sister might take her own life,
because Michael had robbed her of everything. But Jane is not
alone when it comes to confidence tricksters scamming
women in matters of the heart on holiday.

Around 1,000 British people are victims of dating scams each
year, according to the Office of National Statistics.

In 2004, a smooth-talking gentleman named Rudi Sloot began
speaking to widow Jeanette Styles, 56, from Whitby, while in
Sorrento, Italy. Handsome and polite, he told her he worked
as an undercover agent in the White House.

'I fell for him. He seemed lovely. He came to see me in
England and never left. It felt like we'd been together for
years,' said Jeanette.

But before she knew it, Rudi was talking her into buying him
£17,000 cars and loaning him money, always promising to
pay her back but never doing it.

One night, when he became aggressive, she called the police.
They came and arrested him and revealed he was a wanted
man, on the run from Interpol for committing fraud and theft
all over the world.

'I felt emotionally betrayed,' said Jeanette. 'It was a lot to deal
with and I get quite emotional when I think about it. I don't
think I'll ever get over it.'

Jeanette is now rebuilding her life with her new partner
Adrian, a local chef, and Rudy is in jail, but she has been left
with the scars of her ordeal with the man who called himself
'Rudi Sloot'.