Until retired engineer Eddie Rushe was scammed into losing £35,000 online, he was often referred to as the big man.
The 82-year-old from Lurgan, Co Armagh, worked in the airline industry for decades and, in his spare time, bred and raced greyhounds.
From November 2023 until February last year, Mr Rushe was “groomed”, according to his son, by fraudsters in an elaborate cryptocurrency scam – which used AI-generated deep fake images of consumer experts on social media advertisements.
The widower contacted a number after spotting
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