For Love or Money

When Tina met Andrew online, she was swept off her feet, but as soon as they started making plans to spend the rest of their life together his requests for money began.

Are his sob stories of remarkable bad fortune for real, or is Tina being conned? Ash and Kym are on the case.

Elsewhere DS Marc Cananur and his fraud squad team uncover a treasure trove of designer goods and cash that might be the key evidence needed to expose an elaborate fraud.

When Paul met a new partner on a dating site, he thought he'd met the woman of his dreams.

But when she started asking for large sums of his money to help unlock a treasure trove she'd inherited, their relationship took an expensively dark turn. Is she the true love of his life - or just an exploitative gold-digger?

Kym and Ashley promise to find out...

After her husband passed away, Jaqueline ventured online to look for love once again.

She met a man named Bobby, who initially seemed like the perfect gentlemen. But over an eight-year period he targeted her life savings, stealing a six-figure sum before disappearing.

Now, several years on, a solicitor has been in touch, claiming Bobby has died and left Jaqueline money in his estate. Is this a genuine inheritance, or just the latest stage of a sickening scam?

Ash and Kym are determined to find out...

When Christian started an online relationship with a woman called Stephanie, who was in France, he thought his life had changed for the better.

But then she started making requests for her money. Initially he gave her what he could, but when her pleas became incessant and he tried to walk away, she began to make horrifying threats that he fears could ruin his life. 

Can Ash and Kym come to his aid?

After separating from his wife of 25 years Graham met gold trader Maryanne online, and fell in love.

But then she told him she was stuck in Dubai and needed his financial help to get back to the UK, setting in motion a downward spiral that would cost Graham thousands - and lose him his home.

Ash and Kym pick up the case, which gets even murkier when the mysterious Maryanne starts making financial demands of them too.

Kym and Ashley try to uncover the truth about a handsome military man who took over £20,000 from a woman who met him online.

Joe is firmly convinced that his glamorous online girlfriend Jenifer is heading to Scotland from Ghana to set up a new life with him. But endless delays, excuses and demands for money have now cost him thousands. Can Ash and Kym convince him he is being scammed before it's too late?

A psychologically abusive relationship saw Joanna conned into handing over more than £60,000 to a man she met online. Ash and Kym link him to over 1,000 other heartless scams.

Heidi has doubts about a man she met playing an online game, and Kym and Ashley want to uncover the truth.

Linda ventured online hoping to find a cure for her loneliness. Instead she found herself suffering from what she felt was Stockholm syndrome, unable to escape a relationship with a man who took tens of thousands of pounds from her.