I'm raising £87,000

I read an article about Rodrick Lodge on bbc . He is a 69 year old widower that was scammed out of 85k by a person in Kenya pretending to want to marry him.

People may laugh but he is now living in a shelter alone, with no hope for the future, and no chance of getting his money back.

I’ve never met him , but it could be your dad or grandad or you!!

Help him make his later years bearable

A vulnerable widower has been left homeless and "truly suffering" after being hoodwinked into sending £85,000 to a woman who never existed.

Rodrick Lodge, 69, was living in Leiston, Suffolk, when a friend he had met three years before in Kenya put him in contact with a "woman" named Anita.

After building a relationship over social media, he felt himself falling in love for the first time since the death of his wife Pauline in 2019, and he later agreed to move to Nairobi to marry her.

But what Mr Lodge was actually falling for was an elaborate scam, which would eventually see his entire life savings drained from his bank and leave him with nothing.

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