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title: 79-Year-Old Account Jailed for Falling for Nigerian Email Scam
description: Brian Ridpath fell in love and wound up in jail.
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# [79-Year-Old Account Jailed for Falling for Nigerian Email Scam](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/79-year-old-account-jailed-for-falling-for-nigerian-email-scam)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Thu | Oct 27, 2016 | 7:00 AM Z

Brian Ridpath fell in love and wound up in jail. 

[Sophos Explains:](https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/10/26/accountant-jailed-after-falling-for-nigerian-email-scammer-sexpot/)

> You don’t always go looking for love. Sometimes it just finds you.
> 
> Other times, it reaches out from the internet, sends you X-rated photos and a sob story, and then takes you to the cleaners.
> 
> That’s what happened recently to a 79-year-old accountant who fell for a scammer so hard that he bilked a friend out of £151,000 ($184,000) to come to the rescue of his sweetie pie.
> 
> He would have sent her proceeds from the sale of his home, too, if a court injunction hadn’t stopped him.
> 
> According to [Kent Police,](https://www.kent.police.uk/news/policing-news/1016/man-jailed-for-fraud/) Brian Ridpath, of Willesborough, Kent, England, became both the victim of and, apparently, a pawn in a classic Nigerian email scam.

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