Beware of Solenne Duratte: professional fraudster

Email address: Solenneduratte@gmail.com (Solenne Duratte)

Alias: solennebella96@gmail.com (Solenne Bella)

Alias: Solenne DuGATTE.

Solenne Duratte is beautiful woman, just short of 40 (assuming she is not a man with an extensive collection of pictures of a woman, of course)

She goes around trying to snare fools like me (lonely men, essentially) with a combined promise of both undying love and monetary gains for her victims.

She contacted me nearly a year ago via my email which she claimed to have found on a dating site (impossible of course but I didn't stop to think). In all likelihood, she bought the address from an illegal merchant (dark web?) in such addresses.

She claimed to look for love, having 'had enough' of younger men. Well, snap! as I was getting frustrated trying to find a partner in my own age group.

And so we started chatting, innocently enough at first, also with an exchange of mostly decent photos. We also talked on the phone many times. The story often didn't add up but I was blind.

According to her, she had lived most of her life in Belgium (where I live). She then lost her job and moved to Marseille to tend to her sick mother. The Belgian connection proved later a demostrable lie, like so many others.

We started off on Google chat (but she HAD to move from there), then Whatsapp (where many of her posts were removed and finally Zangi (yeah, I know!)

The requests for money ('soutien') started coming in, mostly very small amounts for 'sick mother, wounded dog, lost SIM card, dentist, empty fridge etc etc') Clearly I had started my career as a reluctant, but loving sugar daddy.

Sometimes I gave in, often not but I wasn't ready to lose the sweet nothings she was constantly whispering in my ear.

Then came the money making scheme. Solenne claimed to be the beneficiary of an inheritance (from her father Maro) of Euro 180,000 but needed 8,500 to unblock the account. I would be handsomely rewarded for coughing up Euro 10,000. Truth is that I would have been all too happy if she would use the money to come and live with me in Belgium, I wanted no other part of it.

As regards the inheritance she provided some plausible looking documents and I was willing to take the plunge.

Which I did by transferring a considerable sum of money into a bank account of here choosing. My own bank, mercifully, recognised the recipient as potentially highly fraudulent and froze the money (it was soon freed again)

If it sound too good to be true, it probably is. Beware of Solenne Duratte, she's a serial, unscrupulous fraudster who'll take you to the cleaners if you let her...

Sadly she is one of very, very many. I get contacted by such women several times a week. Women are no angels either...