Almost 4,000 British people were conned out of an average of 10,000 ($12,500) each during 2016. Between January and November, the service received 3,594 reports of dating fraud. Total sum lost by victims hit 36.6m with average losses of 32m and 26m in fraud. One victim lost a reported 300,000 pursuing a fictitious Italian suitor she met on a dating website. The mans identity was borrowed from a real person trawled from elsewhere on the internet.”]