Cotentin. Scammed by his partner, he lost more than €50,000 in less than a year

End of 2021a 40 year old woman comes to settle down with three of his children in the daily of a inhabitant of Théville, near Saint-Pierre-Église (Manche). He had met her in august. He loved her, and trusted her.

The man could welcome him without difficulty: he had a salaryof strong savings and spent without excess. He only asked his partner to take charge of the ordinary expenses of the family.

A first alert

In return, to thank him for the serenity he offered her, she bought him gifts, such as a cell phone, and other equipment that the household benefited from. From time to time she brought her companion winning tickets of casino.

The alert came from the bank du Thévillais, who wondered about the transfers which multiplied from his librettos. Was he victim of hacking from an ex-partner? He receives a new bank card. But the bank intervened again, a short time later: the charges continued even though he did not change his modest lifestyle.

THE suspicions then focused on his partner whom he had been hosting for a little less than a year.

Stunning fraud and lies

The discovery was astonishing. The man was the victim of scam very neat, a model of its kind. To hide the expenses her partner was making, she delved into the booklets to fulfill your purchases on his companion’s account.

She could thus give him gifts, even expensive ones. He was the one who paid, without knowing it. In total, it is 52,400 euros that the woman punctured with this method between February and November 2022. Generous with the money of the one she shamelessly scammed, she had even partly financed thebuying a car for one of his exes.

She had tried to take him into a real estate adventure which concluded with a promise to purchase a apartment in the amount of 185,000 euros, decorated with the signature of her companion whom she had imitated. It’s up to him to get out of this impasse.

Prison closed under electronic bracelet

When the gendarmes took a close interest in the lady, they discovered that she was an expert in scams, condemned For flight and use of forged checks in 2008for forgery and use of forgery 2014. She did not recognize these slip-ups.

These were expenses for the family, he himself benefited from them.

Point. She did not come to the hearing at court from Cherbourg. She had said her last word. No need to add more. There justice also said her last word: 20 months in prison including 10 with a probationary stay of 3 years, “to supervise him”, with obligation to work and the one at repay THE prejudiceeven if it is clear that repaying 30,835 euros to the bank will be difficult to do in 3 years.

As for her companion of whom she is separate today (we would be less), she will owe him 3,000 euros for his moral damage, not to mention that she still owes him 27,820 euros of which she has not paid the first cent.

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