{"id":588619,"date":"2025-11-23T11:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588619\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:06:14","slug":"london-mum-left-penniless-by-tinder-predator-who-posed-as-businessman-in-fake-investment-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588619\/","title":{"rendered":"London mum left penniless by Tinder predator who posed as businessman in fake investment scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harkins is serving a 12-year sentence for offences against 10 women in Scotland, including rape, assaults, secretly recording intimate videos and defrauding more than \u00a3214,000. He cultivated an online persona as a wealthy, jet-setting \u201cgym rat\u201d, but in reality ran a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/scams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scams<\/a> involving fake holiday bookings, bogus business investments and pressure on women to take out loans of up to \u00a312,000. Some victims were left with long-term debt or forced into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harkins is serving a 12-year sentence for offences against 10 women in Scotland, including rape, assaults, secretly recording&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,1197,176608,257,9968,752,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-588619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-investment","12":"tag-isleworth-crown-court","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-scams","15":"tag-tinder","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115598694029435790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}