EXCLUSIVEHow we were conned by the 'British Tinder 詐欺師': Woman who lost £10,000 and another charmed by Cieran McNamara 明らかにする／漏らす the tricks he used to seduce them - as they 警告する others of the 'red 旗s' to look out for
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Two women who 時代遅れの 悪名高い Bumble 詐欺師 Cieran McNamara have 明らかにする／漏らすd how they were sucked in by his web of lies - with one losing £10,000 to the fraudster.
McNamara, 37, from Coventry, Warwickshire, was 刑務所，拘置所d for seven years after using a string of 誤った 身元s to dupe love 利益／興味s out of £300,000.
He 提起する／ポーズをとるd as a 高級な 所有物／資産／財産 developer, entrepreneur and barrister to 搾取する four 犠牲者s out of cash from September 2022 to when he was 逮捕（する）d one year later.
探偵，刑事s had 'no 疑問' that other 犠牲者s across Britain would have been 的d by?McNamara and 勧めるd them to come 今後 when he was 宣告，判決d.?
But since 存在 刑務所，拘置所d earlier this month, MailOnline has spoken to at least four other women who （人命などを）奪う，主張する they too were tricked by McNamara, dating 支援する to 2013.
Cieran McNamara, 37, from Coventry, who also went by the 指名するs Ciaran Griffin, Christian McNamara and Myles McNamara, was 刑務所，拘置所d for seven years
Emma (pictured) （人命などを）奪う，主張するs she lost £10,000 to? McNamara after she met him on Plenty of Fish in 2013
A screenshot Emma 株d with MailOnline of McNamara's old dating profile from 2013
The 反対／詐欺 artist even （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to be selling a 所有物／資産／財産 to Manchester's 市長, Andy Burnham
The serial romance fraudster 提起する／ポーズをとるd as a BA 操縦する, high-飛行機で行くing barrister and jet-setting DJ to 反対／詐欺 women o ut of a total of £300,000
の中で his 犠牲者s is a 43-year-old nurse from London, who lost £10,000 to the fraudster after matching with 'Christian' on the dating app Plenty of Fish.
A 選び出す／独身 mother, 40, from Birmingham, was also conned out of £3,200 by him in 2022 after he 提起する／ポーズをとるd as a high-飛行機で行くing barrister.
Two more women have told MailOnline how they 恐れるd they were his next 的s after matching with McNamara on dating apps and 存在 told a pack of lies.
During one date, McNamara told his love 利益／興味? 38, from Cheshire, that his 指名する was Myles and he owned a large 所有物／資産／財産 大臣の地位 - even 誇るing that he was selling a house to the 市長 of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.
Another woman, 43, from London, thought she was dating a jet-setting DJ and was?shocked to receive a letter from in 刑務所，拘置所 and £1,000 法案 for a gym 会員の地位.
The women also told 類似の stories of love and betrayal - how the handsome, smartly-dressed fraudster would start up 関係s with them, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing to have a glamorous 職業 as a 操縦する, barrister or jet-setting DJ.?
He wo uld text them pictures of himself at mansions in London and Cheshire, 同様に as pictures of himself travelling first class across the world and staying at five-星／主役にする hotels.
The conman would also 砲撃する the women with gifts, 週末s away and take them out for expensive meals.
One 犠牲者, Emma - not her real 指名する - told MailOnline how she quickly 攻撃する，衝突する it off with McNamara in 2013 after they matched on Plenty of Fish and he took her on a swish date in Mayfair, London.
But unknown to the nurse at the time, her dates with 'Christian' were just the start of an 11-year ordeal during which she （人命などを）奪う，主張するd she lost £10,000 to the fraudster.
She said: 'When we matched online, he told me that he was an up-and-coming singer in a 禁止（する）d called General Direction.
'He took me out for dinners and pretty soon we were dating.
'He was very 十分な on and would always want to come over, but at the end of the day it was fun at the time.'
But to her shock, Emma 設立する out that the music McNamara （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he wrote for the 偽の 禁止（する）d General Direction was in fact?by a different 禁止（する）d called 10 推論する／理由s to Live.??
Emma later went on to message one of the members of 10 推論する／理由s to Live to ask whether he had heard of?McNamara, to which he 答える／応じるd: 'Oh no, not this again.?
'Some lunatic that's been around for years pretending he's me or others out of our 禁止（する）d or pretending he's in a 禁止（する）d.?
'Sorry he's nothing to do with us, we have 発表するd this a million times and 報告（する）／憶測d him God knows how many times.'
McNamara told Emma he was in a 禁止（する）d called General Direction and 株d pictures of himself with her
McNamara 株d soundbites to try and sell his story that he was the lead singer in a 禁止（する）d called General Direction. The music was in fact by a 禁止（する）d called 10 推論する／理由s
She explained that things started to get weird around a month into their 関係.
'I walked into my flat and he was standing there, talking on the phone to his bank,' she said.?
'He had what I now know was a 完全にする pretend conversation 説 he had been in a 事例／患者 of 詐欺 and that they were 氷点の his 資産s.
'He didn't すぐに ask me for money but I did 申し込む／申し出 ? 説 if you need any help let me know and I did 結局最後にはーなる lending him £100.'
Emma explained that soon after she had 計画（する）s to go to Dubai to stay with a friend. At the same time, McNamara told her he was going to the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs to 会合，会う his father.
She said: 'He sent me a message when he 'was in America' 説 his credit card wasn't working and if I could send him my card 詳細（に述べる）s to help him get a bit of cash ? which I did.
'He then out of the blue, suddenly turned up in Dubai!
'I was visiting a friend and the whole thing just wasn't 権利. My friend didn't like him at all. It was やめる an ぎこちない week with him 存在 there.'
When Emma got 支援する to the UK, she realised that McNamara had bought his flight to Dubai with her credit card.??
When Emma got 支援する to the UK she realised that McNamara had bought his flight to Dubai with her credit card
Emma's (pictured) story comes as a total of ten women - who said they were all 犠牲者s of McNamara 接触するd MailOnline
A old screenshot 株d by Emma of?McNamara's old Facebook profile, where he went by the 指名する Christian D Griffin
'He wouldn't give it 支援する. This is the point when I was getting really 関心d. I knew what he was up to and called the police すぐに,' she said.?
'The police told me to keep dating him and to try and gather （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on him myself.
'He 借りがあるd me £10,000 and I worked tirelessly with my dad to find out everything I could about him.
'I knew about him stealing from his grandma, his real 指名する, that he had been in 刑務所，拘置所 for several months.'
The police told Emma they were upscaling the 調査 before they 逮捕（する）d McNamara on 疑惑 of 詐欺.
He was 刑務所，拘置所d for 18 months in 2014 but Emma explained that the fraudster kept in 接触する with her until September 2022 ? even sending her letters from 刑務所，拘置所.
She said: 'For the first few years I would reply, asking him to 返す the money but then I gave up.
'I had to change my status on Facebook as he would say things like he had been watching me at work, even when I changed 職業s.'
She 株d an old message with MailOnline, from the fraudster, who wrote: 'Babe, I'm sorry I lied to you really I am, it's just hard to 直面する up to the truth of what I've done with myself all these years.?
A message that the conman sent Emma after McNamara realised she knew he was duping her
McNamara was 刑務所，拘置所d for 18 months in 2014 but Emma explained that the fraudster kept in 接触する with her until September 2022 ? even sending her letters from 刑務所，拘置所
The defrauder told another woman he went to Eton and was in the same class as Prince William, にもかかわらず the 相続人 to the 王位 存在 four years older than him
'I've travelled 131 miles because I love you. If I had to do this trip everyday just to be with you, I would as I love you.?
'I wouldn't tell you another 嘘（をつく）,' followed by a kiss.?
The 主要都市の Police and 栄冠を与える 起訴 Service were 接触するd for comment but both said the 事例／患者 was too long ago to 供給する a 声明.?
One 38-year-old woman from Cheshire met Cieran McNamara on Bumble in 2022 and 株d her insight on what it was like to date him 排他的に with MailOnline.?
Carla said?he was very '十分な-on' from the start and would にわか雨 her in compliments.?
Carla, not her real 指名する, lives in Cheshire and met Cieran McNamara when she was 37 years old on Bumble in 2022
She matched with him and said he was very '十分な-on' from the start and would にわか雨 her in compliments
He introduced himself as Myles and would send her さまざまな pictures of himself in luxurious places, such as in hot tubs, at fancy cocktail 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s and in lavish mansions.?
On dates, the 詐欺師 told Carla to order 'whatever she 手配中の，お尋ね者' 追加するing one time: 'The staff all know me in here so we'll get the best service.'
'When the 法案 （機の）カム he pulled out this wallet and he's got a big wad of cash in it, like £50 公式文書，認めるs. Who does that these days? He 事実上 threw the money at the waiter,' Carla said.
The conman told Carla that his father lived in America and worked for Microsoft where he made millions from the 職業.
He said that he had an 広範囲にわたる 所有物／資産／財産 大臣の地位 and even （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to be selling a 所有物／資産／財産 to Manchester's 市長, Andy Burnham.?
He told a date he got married in his 早期に twenties and that his wife had left him for another woman and moved to Australia with her
One woman who 時代遅れの him, Carla, said: 'I didn't know at the time, but that wad of cash, those meals he paid for and the taxi was 存在 基金d by other women'
On one occasion, the conman sent Carla a picture of a train 時刻表／予定表 board which he （人命などを）奪う，主張するd was at Euston 駅／配置する in London.?
'He sent me this picture but it was わずかに blurred. It said 延期するs, 延期するs, cancelled, 延期するs,' she said.?
'I didn't reply but then the next day he messaged 説 he couldn't get 支援する and had to （軍の）野営地，陣営 out at Birmingham Airport.?
'He didn't ask me for any money, but I think he was 実験（する）ing me to see whether I would say "Is there anything I can do to help?"?
'Afterwards he told me he was 落ちるing for me, it was total love 爆破.?
'That was literally after telling me he couldn't get 支援する from Euston, but yet （軍の）野営地，陣営d out at Birmingham Airport.'?
に引き続いて his 逮捕（する） officers （警察の）手入れ，急襲d a lock-up 存在 rented by McNamara where they 回復するd だいたい £19,500 価値（がある） of brand new goods ? 含むing a £1,900 Burberry coat, a £400 Burberry Scarf, Dubarry boots, Gucci trainers and a Ping ゴルフ 始める，決める
The conman told Carla that his father lived in America and worked for Microsoft where he made millions from the 職業
Carla 追加するd: 'He didn't get any money out of me. Not one 選び出す／独身 penny. However, when I was speaking to the police I said I felt an 巨大な 量 of 犯罪.
'I didn't know at the time, but that wad of cash, those meals he paid for and the taxi was 存在 基金d by other women.
'It's really horrible to think that somebody could just do that to people and I can see how these poor girls had been sucked into it.
'He is the Tinder 詐欺師 of Cheshire.'?
Last week, two women, Danielle from Birmingham and Claire from London - also 株d their stories 排他的に with MailOnline.?
Danielle, 40, was conned out of £3,200 by McNamara in 2022 after he 提起する／ポーズをとるd as a high-飛行機で行くing barrister.?
The 選び出す／独身 mother fell for the love ネズミ when he （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he too was going through a painful 離婚.?
She said: 'It was all about building 信用 at first. He would listen all about my life, and be empathetic, supportive and caring.
'We would do ビデオ calls and he would make me feel 手配中の，お尋ね者, beautiful ? he 偉業／利用するd the insecurities that his 犠牲者s had. He was very manipulative.
'He would use things that I had said about my life and 新たな展開 them to fit his life. He told me he was going through a 離婚 ? like he knew I had done.'
Danielle, 40, was conned out of £3,200 by McNamara in 2022 after he 提起する／ポーズをとるd as a high-飛行機で行くing barrister.
Last week, two women, Danielle and Claire - not their real 指名するs - also 株d their stories 排他的に with MailOnline
But in April 2022, the dynamic of their 関係 slowly started to change. Then the web of lies surrounding money started.
McNamara first 接触するd Danielle （人命などを）奪う，主張するing to be in 'a bit of a 状況／情勢', that he had been mugged and 猛烈に needed cash to get the train home.
What started with £20 here and £30 there soon snowballed - and within the space of a month Christian 借りがあるd Danielle more than £3,200.
She said: 'He caught me at a very 攻撃を受けやすい time when my sister was ill in hospital. I had just come out of a long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 関係. He took advantage of my 肉親，親類d nature.'
At one point, she was 軍隊d to 取り消す her daughter's birthday party because she couldn't afford it.
Danielle continued: 'He （機の）カム up with lots of excuses as to why he couldn't 返す me.
'It started with he didn't have a bank card and 手配中の，お尋ね者 to give me the money in person and apologised for the inconvenience.
'As time 進歩d, he said it was 負かす／撃墜する to an expensive 離婚.
'We arranged to 会合，会う six or seven times so he would 返す the money in person, but he never showed up.'
Danielle 接触するd West Midlands Police about McNamara in August 2022, but she was 'fobbed off' and told to 報告（する）／憶測 the 罪，犯罪 to 活動／戦闘 詐欺.
She said: 'I 設立する lots of 証拠 against him myself and I was ready to give it all to the police… but I was fobbed off.
'I had two police officers come around to my house when my children were there and say this isn't 詐欺. But I knew 正確に／まさに what it was.
'The most infuriating thing about this whole 状況／情勢 is that if the police had listened to me then 非，不，無 of this would have happened - those women who did manage to bring 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s would never have lost all that money.'
A 広報担当者 for West Midlands Police said: 'We were 接触するd by a woman in August of 2022 who had been the 犠牲者 of a 詐欺 by a man she had met on a dating website.
'詳細（に述べる）s were taken from the woman and based on the （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） she was able to give us, she was advised to 接触する 活動／戦闘 詐欺.'
Claire was under the impression sh e had just met a jet-setting Ibiza DJ 指名するd James who had 素早い行動d her off her feet.
She had no idea she would in fact become the conman's last 犠牲者 after he had rinsed his other 犠牲者s out of a total of £300,000.
McNamara 約束d to buy Claire, his last 犠牲者, a flat in Canary Wharf as he had an 広範囲にわたる 所有物／資産／財産 大臣の地位 in London and kept spoiling her with £500 示すs & Spencer 保証人／証拠物件s
'DJ こそこそ動く' 扱う／治療するd her to the ‘best’ ten days of her life, 含むing dinners at The Ivy and trips to see her in his 私的な jet.?
The pair met on Bumble at the beginning of last September with McNamara （人命などを）奪う，主張するing he was a world-wide DJ 現在／一般に based in Ibiza.
Not long after, he said he would jet over from the Spanish island to 会合，会う her, and the couple’s whirlwind romance began.
Claire said: ‘Our 雑談（する）s on Bumble quickly move d over to WhatsApp and before I knew it, he was 説 that he couldn’t wait to see me.
‘He certainly was a charmer and knew all the 権利 things to say. We got on really 井戸／弁護士席 ? almost too 井戸／弁護士席.
‘He （機の）カム across as the most amazing guy ? I can really understand why all these women thought they had met their "Prince Charming". For two weeks he "ワインd and dined" me ? brunches, シャンペン酒, everything!'
He also 約束d to buy Claire a flat in Canary Wharf as he had an 広範囲にわたる 所有物／資産／財産 大臣の地位 in London and kept spoiling her with £500 示すs & Spencer 保証人／証拠物件s.
Claire, not her real 指名する, (pictured) was under the impression she had just met a jet-setting Ibiza DJ 指名するd James who had 素早い行動d her off her feet
She said: 'He kept 説 he 手配中の，お尋ね者 me to be financially 安全な・保証する. At the end of the day I opened him up to my world and I really 信用d him.'?
But suddenly McNamara went 静かな.
For a few days, Claire heard nothing but then she received a letter. A letter from HMP Altcourse in Liverpool 時代遅れの September 30.
It read: ‘Sorry I just disappeared ? it wasn’t by choice. It appears I have a few 優れた 法案s totalling £296,000.
‘On Thursday night (September 28) I had a rude awakening by police 説 there was a 令状 out for my 逮捕（する）.’
It continued: ‘Nothing has changed in my mind about you and I have 行方不明になるd you and your touch in the last 72 hours.
‘I have been みなすd a flight 危険 to the police based on my comings and goings out of the UK and for that 推論する／理由 I have been 再拘留（者）d in 保護／拘留 until the 事柄 is 解決するd.’
McNamara had just bought Claire an expensive 会員の地位 at a wellness club in London and she was suddenly left with a £1,000 法案.
Looking 支援する, Claire said there were a few red 旗s - but nothing that すぐに raised her 疑惑s.
Claire was shocked when McNamara disappeared out of the blue - then she received a letter from HMP Altcourse
'He would 主張する on going up to 支払う／賃金 the 法案 and he also always had two phones on him - but I just thought he was a busy 実業家,' she said.?
The Mail also 明らかにする／漏らすd that McNamara's first 犠牲者 was in fact the grandmother who raised him.
He fleeced Kathleen O'Sullivan out of around £60,000 after 繰り返して 身を引くing money from her bank account and （警察の）手入れ，急襲ing a wardrobe where she stashed cash at home.
A 親族 said the fraudster had a 'remarkable ability to remember long numbers' which he also used to memorise his grandmother's bank card numbers ? using them to 支払う／賃金 for hotels around the country where he lived the high life.
The grandmother took him in because McNamara's own mother, who had health problems, could not 支配（する）／統制する him.
Only child McNamara (pictured age 15) grew up in Coventry, where his half-ポーランドの（人） mother, Christine Ostrowski, almost died giving birth to him
The grandmother took him in because McNamara's own mother, who had health problems, could not 支配（する）／統制する him. He fleeced Kathleen O'Sullivan out of £60,000
But around the same time, the conman also began stealing from the カトリック教徒 church where he was taken by Mrs O'Sullivan.
The 'horrified' pensioner only discovered what was happening at her beloved church in Binley, Coventry, when the priest （機の）カム around to tell her that McNamara, one of the altar boys at the church, had been caught helping himself to the contents of the collection box.
A 親族 said: 'He was taken to the police 駅／配置する by his uncle who asked officers to put the 恐れる of God in to him. They chucked him in a 独房 for a few hours in the hope it would teach him a lesson and Cieran spent that time crying his 注目する，もくろむs out 明らかに. He was only 14 or so at the time.
'But it 明確に didn't work and we don't have anything to do with him these days.
'Cieran was never violent, but he was always a どろぼう, even as a boy.'?
McNamara was 逮捕（する）d in September last year に引き続いて an 調査 by Cheshire Police in Colchester.
He was subsequently 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with four counts of 詐欺 by 誤った 代表.?
に引き続いて his 逮捕（する） officers （警察の）手入れ，急襲d a lock-up 存在 rented by McNamara where they 回復するd だいたい £19,500 価値（がある） of brand new goods ? 含むing a £1,900?Burberry coat, a £400 Burberry Scarf, Dubarry boots, Gucci trainers and a Ping ゴルフ 始める，決める.?
宣告，判決ing him to seven years in 刑務所，拘置所, 裁判官 Simon Berkson said McNamara's 前科 was a 重要な 悪化させるing factor, with many 類似の offences in the past.
探偵，刑事 Constable Victoria Hazlewood, of Cheshire Police, who led the 調査, said: 'McNamara is a serial fraudster, and I truly believe he cannot tell the difference between reality and fantasy.
'During our 調査, we 暴露するd a web of lies with thousands of text messages which he sent to his 犠牲者s ーするために だまし取る cash to 基金 his lavish lifestyle.
'He 納得させるd his 犠牲者s that he was a millionaire with 所有物／資産／財産s across the country, but in reality, he was 失業した and living out of スーツケース.
McNamara was subsequently 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with four counts of 詐欺 by 誤った 代表
宣告，判決ing him to seven years in 刑務所，拘置所, 裁判官 Simon Berkson said McNamara's 前科 was a 重要な 悪化させるing factor, with many 類似の offences in the past
'McNamara identified ways he could 支配（する）／統制する and manipulate his 犠牲者s and throughout the 調査, he has shown no 悔恨 for his 活動／戦闘s.
'He truly believed that he would never be caught by police and that he would never be held accountable for his despicable behaviour.
'Thankfully, because of the courage and bravery of his 犠牲者s, and the work of the team here in the 経済的な 罪，犯罪 部隊 at Cheshire Constabulary, McNamara was left with no 選択 other than to 収容する／認める his 犯罪.
'While he is now behind 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s, I have no 疑問 that there are other 犠牲者s across the country who have been 扱う／治療するd in the same way and I would encourage them to come 今後.
'If you believe that you have been 的d by a romance fraudster, or you believe somebody の近くに to you has been 的d, then please 接触する 活動／戦闘 詐欺 so you can begin to get the necessary support and 妨げる other people from becoming 犠牲者s.'
'成果／努力s to 位置を示す other 資産s belonging to McNamara remain 現在進行中の and all the items 回復するd will be 支配する to a proceeds of 罪，犯罪 審理，公聴会.'
*At their request, the 指名するs of the women in this a rticle have been changed.?
