Former Birmingham car salesman Matthew Samuels, 49, is being quizzed by police investigating a suspected UK-wide lonely-hearts scam which saw victims romanced and then defrauded of around PS168,000.
The Mail understands the first alleged lonely-hearts victim, from Staffordshire, contacted police in spring last year and claimed she had been defrauded of PS60,000.
Kristofor McCarty, from Northumbria University, who led the study, said: "A quick browse of
lonely-hearts ads will confirm that women look for a good sense of humour in a potential partner - our research may explain why this is the case.
Packs of pensioners hogging the streets on mobility scooters, robot slaves and hordes of
lonely-hearts looking for love on a 3G mobile phone are the bleak, and bizarre, future visions of a supermarket chain.
LONELY-hearts are being targeted by internet gangs to defraud them of thousands of pounds, a documentary claims tonight.
ABERDEEN have tried a
lonely-hearts approach to wooing back missing fans.
A businessman looking for love got the shock of his life when he replied to a
lonely-hearts advert.
West's vision of the horror and emptiness of modern life is established most effectively in his two best works, <IR> MISS
LONELY-HEARTS </IR> (1933) and <IR> THE DAY OF THE LOCUST </IR> (1939).
A PERVERT who placed a
lonely-hearts ad to meet a mother and then preyed on her son was jailed for life yesterday.
TV star Lisa Rogers is set to help Welsh
lonely-hearts search for love - and break a world record at the same time.