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Drugs swoop MORE than two kilos of heroin have been seized as police broke up a drug trafficking gang operating across the Valencia Community and in Alicante Province. Thirteen people have been arrested.
Cheap Xmas THE CLARO party has criticised Orihuela Town Hall for focusing its Christmas events and illuminations in the city and largely ignoring the Orihuela Costa.
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Online love lost Scammers target lonely women
By Gemma Quinn ONE Costa Blanca woman is putting together a guide to protect women looking for love and companionship from being targeted by scammers. Ann Mather lost her husband to pancreatic cancer in April this year. Making friends with other widowed women, she was suggested a pen pal site. Within days she was contacted by a person named Mackenzie Dalton claiming to be a US citizen and a civil/structural engineer. Correspondence flowed, quickly moving to private emails
FAKE IMAGE: Some unsuspecting person’s image was used by the scammers pretending to be ‘Mackenzie Dalton’.
and Skype, and within weeks they were speaking daily. He had gone to Ghana for work
and a week before he was due to fly to Spain to visit Ann, he said he had maxed out his credit card. Ann transferred money to his account before he called to say it was all a scam. “He said he could not keep it going because he did not want to upset me more.” said Ann. Read Ann’s advice on how to avoid the scammers on Page 12.