Norfolk woman felt ‘stupid’ over fake Rag’n’Bone Man scam

She said: “I asked him if he was the actual person – he said, ‘What makes you think I’m not?’

“I felt like that it was actually him, because of the way he was, the way he drew me in.”

The con continued from there. The scammer told Mary that they had “fallen madly in love” with her.

Mary also received messages, supposedly from the singer’s management team, telling her she needed to pay £1,500 to meet the man she described as an “idol”.

The fake Rag’n’Bone Man stepped up the pressure as well.

“He was getting a bit blunt and little bit nastier about the money. He kept pushing and pushing me – there was so much pressure and it was absolutely doing my head in. So, I fell for it and sent him the money,” she said.

The demands for money continued. At one point, Mary was asked for £5,000 until she realised that she had been conned.