Brian Ridpath fell in love and wound up in jail.
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, Brian Ridpath, of Willesborough, Kent, England, became both the victim of and, apparently, a pawn in a classic Nigerian email scam.