A suspected scammer has been charged with fraud by false representation this month.

The incidents occurred between October 11 2022 and January 30 2023 where the woman allegedly projected a false identity to trick their victim.

Megan Whiles, 22 of Jay Corner in Bracknell will appear at Reading Magistrates Court on March 6 after being charged with one count of fraud by misrepresentation.

This crime has been described as a ‘romance fraud’, which is when suspects invest significant amounts of time into socially engineering their victims, knowing that as they gain the victim’s trust, their chances of extracting considerable funds from them simultaneously increase.