This is a case that would make one smile if there had not been a great financial loss suffered by the victim.
An OM supporter, who was too naive, was scammed by a fake... Pablo Longoria who took the sum of 15,000 euros from him.
This resident of Salon-de-Provence, 50 km from Marseille, explained his misadventure to BFM Marseille.
He recounted, his face blurred, having exchanged for several months with a usurper, pretending to be the president of OM.
Showing his conversations on social networks with the so-called president of OM, the victim explained having had long messages with him, in which the Spaniard promised him 80,000 euros "for his personal projects", under subject to paying some bank charges.
In total, he lost 15,000 euros.
“He shattered my life.
I told him ''you broke up a family''.
I am going through a divorce, I have a lot of expenses to pay, at the same time I take care of my children, because they have nothing to do with it.
I am in complete disarray,” he explained on camera.
Salon-de-Provence: defrauded by a fake Pablo Longoria, he loses 15,000 euros pic.twitter.com/lKXkWjhY7H
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The victim was not suspicious of the profile of the so-called Pablo Longoria despite the account's low number of subscribers and the sometimes questionable spelling of the messages.
He is still convinced that this is indeed the real Pablo Longoria.
“I have no doubts,” he says.
Moreover, the usurper continues to communicate with the OM supporter: “I told a friend to make this transfer in order to help you with the fees that the bank claimed.
I'll send you the photo of the receipt and you'll go make the withdrawal and put it back on Nickel.
Thank you for the understanding my brother,” the fake Longoria wrote to him, for example.
“There are certain legislations, there are laws, I fell into the trap.
I trusted,” regretted the father who will try to recover part of his money by filing a complaint in the coming days.