Women in Dublin and indeed all over Ireland are being warned to stay away from a man going by the name of ‘Wesley’.
Lauren Caffrey-Byrne got in touch with us to tell us about her friend got scammed by a man going the name of Wesley O’ Brien, whom she met on popular dating app Plenty of Fish.
“…He used the alias Wesley O’Brien, claiming to be the nephew of Irish Billionaire Denis O’Brien and after some chatting, they eventually agreed to meet up for a date where he wooed my friend and subsequently asked her to be his girlfriend.
After making the woman (who wishes to remain anonymous) his girlfriend, Wesley spun lie after lie to impress his new girlfriend.
“During this period, he told her various tall stories such as being a “lifelong friends” with Conor McGregor, sending her screenshots of Whatsapp conversations between himself and Conor and himself and Dee Devlin (which later transpired to be fake) and he even went as far as “booking” a holiday for my friend and him to New York this November with Ringside seats to his “best buds” upcoming MMA match.
“He actually video recorded himself in a Travel Agents booking the holiday and sent it to my friend, he sent her the “booking confirmation and itinerary” for the trip and had “his sister and mother” (who (sic) apparantly lived in New York themselves) texting and Whatsapping my friend too.
“She had absolutely no reason to doubt who Wesley was purporting to be, the plans that were being made or the stories that he told her as he had done his background research and could answer any question she ever had flawlessly.
Going to extra lengths to prove he was authentic to his girlfriend, this man is clearly meticulous in his plans to con people.
“He regularly sent her pictures of himself in “his dads” corporate offices, he had her collect him outside “his” house in Sandycove (which later turned out to be staged and not his house at all) and he even spoke and gained the trust of my friend’s parents!!!
“Last week, only a couple of days into this new relationship, Wesley told my friend that SBG gym still had five ringside tickets for the NYC McGregor fight and asked my friend if she knew anyone that wanted them as he could sort them out.
As time went on, Wesley’s appetite for the con only got bigger promising tickets to Conor McGregor’s fight for good prices.
“My friend’s mate told her that he would buy them off Wesley and jumped at the oppertunity to get five ringside seats for €1,500.00. My friend brought Wesley to her mates house, introduced Wesley to her mate and the money was handed over and an arangement made for my friend and Wesley to go to SBG to collect and return in a few hours with the tickets.
“On the way to the gym Wesley asked my friend would she mind doing a quick detour to Moore Street as he had to draw up rosters for the staff in a chain of sunbed salons that “he owns”.
“My friend duly went and parked up on Moore Street, Wesley gave her a kiss and said he would be back momentarily.
“Well – Wesley never did come back! Wesley gone, money gone, social network accounts deleted and mobile numbers for him, “his sister” and “his mum” all disconected!”
Since the publishing of this post, Lauren said she has been inundated with messages from other women who were allegedly victimised by this con-artist.
