Conning the Con

Andrew has been playing a game of chess with Emma for six months. However, Emma's discovery of his real identity means the tables are about to turn on Andrew, just when he was almost at checkmate. In the last Episode Emma's friends, Sarsha and Jo, do some digging and find the ODT article (link below) Meanwhile, Emma is oblivious to their discovery and transfers $250,000 directly to Andrews account to invest Emma is the last to discover Andrew Thomson is actually convicted Fraudster Andrew Tonks Unravelling the truth from the lies she discovers Andrew Tonks works at a freighting company in dispatch! Otago Daily Times Article https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/fraudster-jailed-after-theft-pay-reparation Useful links Join Emma @thebreatheffect on Facebook and Instagram To learn the tools that Emma used to help both survive and thrive through trauma join Emma on one of her amazing online courses. Choose to reset your stress response and rewire your brain over 30 days. The Breath Effect - thebreatheffect.com Dr Sophie Muir - drsophiemuir.com If you have your own true crime story to share please contact us. email: [email protected] Facebook: conningtheconpodcast Instagram: conningthecon Twitter: conningthecon1 If you believe you have been targeted by a Fraudster then please reach out for help. Many places can help, below are a few to get you pointed in the right direction.  UK: Action Fraud NZ: NZ Government - Scams NZ: Netsafe Australia: Scamwatch US: USA Government - Scams Our thanks to the talented: Aroha Min for the theme tune Jon Stubbs - Voiceover artist Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/conningthecon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma's friends, Sarsha and Jo, smell a rat. However, smelling a rat and catching a rat, well, they are two entirely different things! In the last Episode Andrew had spent six months grafting, building Emma's trust. By March 2019 he had finally hit the payload and convinced Emma to invest in a "property venture" with him. She 'invests' a smaller amount for a month before Andrew doubles down and goes in for the kill. Come the 8th of April, Emma is set to transfer the next big chunk of cash. Useful links Join Emma @thebreatheffect on Facebook and Instagram To learn the tools that Emma used to help both survive and thrive through trauma join Emma on one of her amazing online courses. Choose to reset your stress response and rewire your brain over 30 days. The Breath Effect - thebreatheffect.com Dr Sophie Muir - drsophiemuir.com If you have your own true crime story to share please contact us. email: [email protected] Facebook: conningtheconpodcast Instagram: conningthecon Twitter: conningthecon1 If you believe you have been targeted by a Fraudster then please reach out for help. Many places can help, below are a few to get you pointed in the right direction.  UK: Action Fraud NZ: NZ Government - Scams NZ: Netsafe Australia: Scamwatch US: USA Government - Scams Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/conningthecon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We rejoin the story with Emma digesting the aftermath and calculating the cost of Andrew's deception. He still had a sizeable chunk of her money and getting it back was not going to be for the fainthearted. A plan was percolating, it was time to Con the Con. In the last Episode For the last six months, Andrew Tonks had been playing a game of chess with my sister Emma and up until the 9th of April 2019, she had no idea that she was playing it, let alone that Andrew was almost at checkmate.  In the previous episodes, unbeknownst to Andrew, Emma had discovered his real identity. Fight or flight kicked in ..... Emma chose to fight. She had swung into action to recover the money that had been transferred into his account only the day before. However, to have any chance of retrieving the money she couldn't let on that she knew his true identity. And so operation "Bank Transfer" swung into action. Useful links Join Emma @thebreatheffect on Facebook and Instagram To learn the tools that Emma used to help both survive and thrive through trauma join Emma on one of her amazing online courses. Choose to reset your stress response and rewire your brain over 30 days. The Breath Effect - thebreatheffect.com Dr Sophie Muir - drsophiemuir.com If you have your own true crime story to share please contact us. email: [email protected] Facebook: conningtheconpodcast Instagram: conningthecon Twitter: conningthecon1 If you believe you have been targeted by a Fraudster then please reach out for help. Many places can help, below are a few to get you pointed in the right direction.  UK: Action Fraud NZ: NZ Government - Scams NZ: Netsafe Australia: Scamwatch US: USA Government - Scams Our thanks to the talented: Aroha Min for the theme tune  Jon Stubbs - Voiceover Artist Annabel Miller - Voiceover Artist Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/conningthecon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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