Cardiff Romance Scammer Betrayed Victims Out of Nearly £50,000

Romance conman scammed women out of £50,000 by telling them he worked for BBC and MI6

A romance conman who scammed women out of almost £50,000 by claiming to work for the BBC and MI6 has been jailed.Rodney Ade Roberts, 40, of Trowbridge, Cardiff, was jailed for more than five years at Newport Crown Court.Roberts, a kitchen porter, has a long history of fraud dating back to 2015, with six convictions for seven offences, including romance fraud.Under the alias "Paul Smith", Roberts defrauded three women out of a total of £49,580 be…

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Romance fraudster jailed after conning victims out of £49,000

Cardiff romance fraudster jailed after he conned three women out of more than £49,000

Romance Fraudster from Cardiff Jailed

40-year-old Rodney Roberts, of Trowbridge, Cardiff, was sentenced today at Newport Crown Court to five-years and one-month in prison for fraud by false representation. Officers from the Proactive Economic Crime Team at Tarian Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU), and South Wales Police, found that between 2021 and 2024 Roberts defrauded three victims of a combined