conned

Romance fraud is when someone is conned into sending money to a criminal who convinces them they are in a genuine relationship.

"She's probably done me out of quite a bit of money - I feel angry and conned."

"I just feel like I've been conned," he says, adding "no-one on this planet would have signed" had they known the true extent of the contract.

Thomas Robinson also conned aspiring tea growers by selling them plants he claimed had been "specially engineered" to grow in Scotland's climate - but in reality they had simply been bought in from Italy.

"You should be given an Oscar for that performance. You conned the referee. You conned us. You conned the boxing world."