I’m left with nothing,I’m homeless, I have no child, no family- Man cries out after Kenyan girlfriend dupes him

A heartbroken man has been left with nothing after being scammed by his Kenyan girlfriend.

Rodrick Lodge, a 69-year-old man, revealed that his girlfriend conned him out of £85,000 from his life savings.

In an interview with The Mirror, Rodrick shared that he first met his Kenyan girlfriend, “Mary,” while he was working in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2020. This happened after his wife of 25 years, Pauline, passed away.

He said: “I’ve known her since 2020 and I thought she was a friend.

“I even helped her out with a bit of money over the years, paid for car repairs, things like that. Looking back I now realise it was so bizarre. Last summer Mary told me she had a friend, Anita, who lived in Karen, a suburb of Nairobi. She put me in touch with her.

“We started exchanging messages on Viber. She told me she was MD of a beauty company and had 30 employees. She sounded successful, she said she was having a house built in Voi, about 200 miles from Nairobi.”

According to him, while they were both talking, he said she told him that she was building a house and even sent him countless of pictures including unclad photos which he no longer has again.

He revealed that while they were still just friends, he fell in love with Mary and they began dating. This led him to decide that he wanted to marry her.

Rodrick disclosed that he paid her dowry and also agreed to cover the costs of a house she claimed she was building.

He admitted that during their entire relationship, they only communicated online. He never met her in person or even spoke to her on the phone. Whenever he wanted to meet her, she always made excuses.

“She was sending pictures of solar panels and water pumps. I thought it was going well. Then, in November, she told me she had to go to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to market her products. She said there were cash flow problems and the business didn’t have enough money. So I paid for that too. She’d send pictures of her and her friends in Kigali [capital of Rwanda], it looked like she was doing well.”

“She was always putting things off, making excuses. I realise now I was such a fool. I should have stopped it there and then. In May she said her dad was in a particular hospital and she needed help with the bills. But when we checked, there was no one with his name there. That finished it.”

“I doubt that Anita even exists. I’ve no idea who I’ve been communicating with. I’m in such a mess. My bank accounts have been frozen because I’ve gone overdrawn, I can’t get access to my pensions and I’ve got nowhere to live. I’ve been a giving person all my life and I aimed to retire to Kenya and marry Anita.

“I’ve been so stupid. She never existed. It was a creation. I’m totally lost. I have zero cash and am relying on a couple of friends. I’m going to be a poor man for a long time. It was all a scam, I realise that now. I have no family, no kids that can help me. It’s over for me.”