Man Dies by Suicide After Losing £10,000 to Online Scam

A young man, Oliver Wright, has tragically taken his own life after being scammed out of £10,000, an incident that deeply affected his mental health.

Although now reported at age 23, the devastating scam occurred in December 2022 . According to reports, he was left emotionally shattered after realizing he had been deceived, and the stress took a serious toll on his Mental well-being.

Paying tribute to her late son, Oliver’s mother shared her heartbreak with The Echo, saying:”He was a great boy. He was a properly cheeky young man. He was good fun. He’d move the Christmas tree and put it in a different room.

“He’d just do daft things. He was a practical joker. If he saw you in the car, he’d open the boot and then get in his car and drive off. He was just a boy.

“He was big into driving. My husband’s got his own business and Oliver used to help him out. Oliver could drive a forklift by the age of 10. He was a 20-year-old lad driving these massive lorries. Driving was his thing.”

She added: “He did loads and loads of jobs and by the time he got to 18, he’d saved up a hell of a lot of money.

“He got scammed on his phone and it obviously affected him. He got really upset by it. It was stressing him out and he was embarrassed, so he didn’t really quite know what to do about it.

“They went through £10,000 within about three days and his heart just broke because he’d worked so hard. He’d go and cut people’s grass from a young age.

“He was saving up and wanted his own truck business eventually, and these people knocked it all out of him and he was embarrassed.”

“We all had a last holiday together in Morocco in September. He was brilliant.

“I was on the speedboat with him and he was scaring the living daylights out of me because he’s driving so fast. I had a wonderful family holiday and a few weeks later he wasn’t there. It’s mad.

“He was so happy the night before we lost him. He wasn’t really into football, but there was an England v Wales football match on and his girlfriend was from Wales.

“He was watching football, laughing and screaming. He was picking me up, spinning around because I was in the lounge putting the Christmas tree up early.”

His mother, Jill Wright, revealed that in the days leading up to his death, Oliver had been admitted to the ICU at Warrington Hospital due to his declining condition.

In a poignant moment during her hospital stay, Jill was given a special teddy bear—one that could capture and replay a person’s heartbeat

She added: “I was coming home in the car without my son but had this little bear on my knee with his heart beating it. If I want to listen to it, I can at any point, but I don’t necessarily do that very often. It’s just knowing that it’s there in my bedroom with me all the time.

“I think I would be a different person if I didn’t come home without that little bear. I don’t think I’d be as strong as I am now in coping with the loss.

“You’ve got pictures in the house and you’ve got videos. But this little bear in my bedroom next to his picture has helped me so much.”