Back in the 80s I worked with a middle-aged single woman who was left a nice sum of money by her grandma. She took herself off to St Lucia for her first ever overseas holiday where she was wooed by one of the 20-something hotel waiters. When she came back to the UK totally believing she was in love we all warned her to be careful. She ignored us and the advice of her bank manager. She fell for every line this man (who turned out to be married with children and a wife who was in on the scam) spun her and the last we heard the "love of her life" had taken her for every penny and she couldn't even afford a flight home. Any middle-aged woman who goes to a foreign country and thinks she's "pulled" a good looking young local is totally deluded.

When a man askes a woman for money, run. If your husband changes demeanor the day after the wedding, get an annulment immediately.

I met a guy from a dating sight. We texted back and forth for about a month. When we finally met in person for a drink he said "im a little short on cash right now." I bought us each a beer, excused myself to go to the bathroom, left, and never looked back. Once a man reguests money its time to bail.

Ladies..please wake up!! If your lonely please give a shelter dog a home. You will be rewarded with unconditional love 💕

There are far worse things than being alone. Being bled for money by a romance scammer &/or beaten by a man who runs out on you owing money for his debts? Yeah, I am happy alone.

That woman doesn’t seem to accept the fact that she decided to bring a complete stranger into her kids lives and put his needs before theirs.I’d say the kids were the victims in that relationship

I’m a bank manager and am absolutely flabbergasted by what I regularly see happen to good-hearted yet naive folks. Oh and Tracy going back for round 2? Dear lord woman, don’t be daft!

It's interesting that the men who all look average are described by the women as INCREDIBLY HANDSOME

Now she's seriously wondering if a man from the Gambia can be tracked down to help pay off her debts. it's beyond sad. The stupidity.

It’s okay being single. It’s a true gift when you can be alone with yourself. Those who fly single have the strongest wings ❤

Man says he’s terrible with money and can’t pay his rent. He’s a keeper!!! 😂

OMG, I cannot believe it, Tracy is repeating the same fatal mistake . It's really a no brainer 😢

I’m 60 years old and briefly tried internet dating after my divorce from an abusive husband about 15 years ago. After being raped by one of the men I met, I gave up. I’m lonely but no longer afraid. Me and my little dog will be just fine. Ladies, don’t be afraid to be your own best friend.

Anytime a man asks for money it’s a red flag moment. Excuse yourself to powder your nose and go straight out the back door. Pack your bags and leave. If you are in a place where you can’t leave simply reply and say, “Actually, I’m broke and was just going to ask you for money.” You will be surprised how fast they leave.

Annemarie is lucky her kids even want to know her after what she put them through with that monster.

There is NO excuse to ever put a man before your children 😢

"Aziz is TOTALLY different....he can't do enough for me........he's never asked me for money.........." Oh Tracy - did you learn nothing???

I feel so sad and disappointed with Ann Marie putting her children through that turmoil.

Get a dog, you can trust them.

The only thing we can do to avoid these scammers is to be honest with ourselves. If you're that old, wrinkled, can no longer bear a child, someone who's in their early nor late 20s would never wanna be with you. Fight delusions.

They all were foolish to some degree or another but when I saw that Tracy had another younger man in tow the old saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" comes to mind.

I've been to Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. I'm in my 50's yet the young men that are 'attracted' to me are uncountable. If I didnt realise that there is a motive behind the attraction, I could easily have my choice of a young man. When it first happened I would talk and laugh with them then walk away. I have now developed a certain look that deters them from even approaching me. How any older woman can fall for these men is beyond my comprehension. Yes, some are handsome, but that makes it even more doubtful as to why they would be attracted to me. Ive watched them. When they get nowhere with me, they move on to the next middle aged women in the hope they find someone guillible enough to fall for them. I suppose it could take a while, but eventually it works, as these programmes show.

He couldn’t afford a ticket home??? That’s when you leave and change your number!! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Tracy just didn’t learn her lesson, she’s onto another one! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Please know that being alone is probably the most precious gift of all - may all understand the bliss of being alone!

I find it terribly disturbing that these women had these criminals around their children..fffing crazy

So she gave her 21 year old husband all her money and couldn’t buy her kids school uniform! Shame on her! She chose this and should be ashamed of herself!

It's pretty dumb to go abroad, get involved with someone 75 years younger than you, marry him, pay for all the paperwork needed for him to gain the right to be in your country only to have him runaway (usually to a woman his age) and THEN expect your government to clean up the fallout from choices you made ALL BY YOURSELF.

I am single and loving every minute of it. The only person I have to answer to is myself. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be alone.

The fact that many of these relationships only ended because those MEN wanted to. Otherwise these women would have stayed with them. Yikes! The lack of self respect.

It's so sad how gullible people are - especially in an age where there's so much information about scams and catfishing online. Let's be honest, I'm 56 (and look younger than some of these women on the programme) yet if some tall, dark, handsome guy 20+ years my junior approached me, I would realize straight away that it's not me he wants but what I can provide him with materially

This is what a severe lack of self esteem and a fear of being alone can lead to. Be warned.

These stories blow my mind. There could not have been more red flags if these mean had been wearing clothes made out of red flags. Tracy - "There's no harm in being cautious" Also Tracy - "Aziz is totally different....."

The guy beat you with a belt but the relationship lasted 5 YEARS!!! WTF !!!! Is wrong with these poor women!!!

If a man asked me for money..I’d laugh so hard at how pathetic they are. Maybe that’s why it’s never happened.

A guy online asked me to ship him a certain type laptop while he was reportedly on a business trip in Africa because his laptop had been compromised. I looked up the nearest place to the hotel he was reportedly staying where he could purchase the laptop and sent him the sddress. I told him I lived on a budget and a laptop was not in my budget. 😂

No most women never dream of marrying someone who contributes absolutely nothing to the relationship. How does this make anyone feel special?

These men looked for women for money. Period.

I’m Swedish and lived in Istanbul for 9 years. I was constantly pursued by creeps, but also met some very nice guys - a pilot, a marine engineer, a professional interpreter - who I am still in touch with 7 or 8 years later. They were all younger than me (Turkish men age terribly, both on the outside and in their minds)but I never paid for so much as a cup of tea for them. Either they paid, or we went 50/50. The key here is education and background - they need to have a university education from a good university and must have lived abroad, in a Western country, and be from a modern, liberal family with educated parents. Otherwise it will never work. And if the guy is Kurdish, like the first one in this film, or a villager, like the second, forget it - it’s doomed from the start. He will only be in it for sex and money, as both are pretty much inaccessible to him. I wish these women had some awareness of cultural differences!! For one thing, a Turkish or Kurdish man would never in a million years ask a woman from his own country for money - the man is the provider, and a local girl would laugh in his face if he tried to get her to pay for anything, even a tea.

I almost felt sympathy for these ladies until Tracey popped up with another Turkish, younger than her man, who said he thinks he was married???? Stupidity must run deep in her family.

In the 90is I used to spend my holidays in Kenya. Without self esteem you are lost in this country. I asked the first guy who wooed about me, how much he can pay, because I charge by hour. He vanished quickly and nobody at this beach bothered me again. 🤣

9:36 makes me think the whole time they where visiting his family and she can't speak the language, how many times they were talking about her being his wallet and sugar momma and going to support the whole family right in front of her. I guarantee that they had conversations about her while they were in the same room as her and she's just sitting there smiling away....

" Two things are limitless, the universe and human stupidity" Einstein...

I love being alone - its fantastic.

The only thing this has taught me is that it's so important to love yourself. If you truly love yourself, then it won't leave you open to getting scammed out if your money.

These women meant so little in these men’s minds, they were lucky that money is all they lost. It could have been so much worse. 😢

I knew Tracy was going back to Turkey for a reason other than the money and I figured it was about another man. There's no fool like an old fool.

My mother fell for a Tunisian scammer. I kept warning her for over a year and had multiple arguments over it, and then she decided to go on holiday to visit him, and got married the first time meeting him. It was only when he started asking her for money repeatedly with every reason and excuse under the sun she started realising what was going on. Never respond to a random foreigner messaging you Hi on a social app, it's usually bad news and they're fishing for vulnerable people to take advantage of to get a visa to work in a richer country for a better life for themselves and their family back home.

Once I was holidaying with a friend in Israel we spent most of our time trying to avoid the scores of predatory men with their disgusting pick up lines... Will never understand the attraction, I'd rather be single and have self respect 💜🦋

Nothing wrong with being single. I rather be alone than support someone like that. I already have a kid. I don't need to support a grown ass man.

Tracey says “ these men should not be allowed to get away with it “ but everyone has free will. Tracey, you made a bad choice, that’s your fault, you can’t punish others for your bad decisions, we all have lessons to learn in life, how many scams will it take for you to look at yourself and ask, “ why do I feel this is all I’m worth “, if someone is asking for your money, proposing straight away, overly keen, just run as fast as you can. Give yourself a chance to meet someone genuine

Aside from big cultural and financial differences, what can anyone expect from a relationship with someone who could be your child? The thought of an equal and respectful relationship is ludicrous... Sure, there may be rare exceptions, but being surprised by the results of these kinds of unions is ridiculous.

I can advice western women once and for all. I am Kenyan 🇰🇪and culturally, men dont marry older women. It's not the norm anywhere is Africa for a young man to marry a woman twice his age. It happens once in a while but mostly for money or other status and never for love. Even here in Africa, younger men don't normally marry older women. At least never openly. So ..... The other thing, how men treat women in marriage in Africa is a world apart from Europe or the West. Very different. That said let's use alittle common sense. Marriage is not easy even with someone of the same culture or around age group. What do you expect when it's two people ages apart, different cultures, miles apart, different economic statuses etc? Surely...at the very least, have a smaller age gap and experience divide if nothing else. Reduce the number of factors that are not common.

They are flattered by the attentions of a younger man and become deluded and act like silly teenagers, ridiculous women

Anyone who jumps into a lake where there may be alligators lurking is looking for danger. These women went eyes wide open into dangerous relationships. No pity.

We need an update on Tracy and her new man .she didn't learn 😂😭😂😭😂

No sympathy for Ann Marie. She put her kids through so much and left them without for a stranger

Sorry to see that Tracy fell for another one at the end. Some people never learn.

Just purchase a Vibrator !! They are pretty advanced now days, will get the job done and it will save you a lot of money / heartache !

The problem is people need to get over the notion that being alone is a negative state of existence. Oftentimes, being alone is a lot better than being in struggle love, abuse, lying, cheating, scamming etc. I have a hard time believing that a person who truly loves themselves would allow themselves to get scammed in such a way all for the sake of “love”. The word love is overused and none of these situations embodied the concept of love. Get a hobby , do things that you love and in time you will meet someone that you have things in common with. What exactly does a 41 year old woman have in common with a 21 year old man? Men mature much slower , so essentially she’s his mother and probably having to speak to him as her child. It’s just as creepy in the reverse with older men and younger women, the only difference is that younger woman has a higher probability of being a tad bit more mature than the younger male situation. Just be honest and say you wanted a “play thing” who was younger because there’s no flipping way you wanted a mutually exclusive relationship with someone 20 years your junior.

My dad is Turkish and from Istanbul- although he is a good man, I can't begin to tell you how the cultural differences between my mother and him caused soooo many issues. People need to understand that the behavior you see during the period of courtship is not reality. It will change immediately after marriage, as the story here illustrates...know what you're getting into. Research the culture, don't be blinded by love...

The neighbour who said that her hubby had been offered 100k for her , gave me a giggle . Those men tried to scam her hubby too! 🤣🤣 If they had a 100k , they wouldn’t want her , for money and a passport !

the one who got beat with a belt, are you crazy trying to find him???? be lucky you got away with your life!!!!

I do feel for these women, feeling lonely is a terrible thing, but you always have to ask yourself if something sounds to good to be true it usually is.

OMG, she's been scammed once and now she's in another romance with someone else!!!! You will be bled dry again lady I can assure you of that. Just cos he's not asking for money doesn't mean he won't in the future and I suppose he'll want a UK passport .

See? I married at 36 and lived a debauched crazy life beforehand. I traveled the world and met so many of these kinds of men. They would send my bottles of champagne and huge bunches of flowers. They would speak in flowery lines. It meant nothing and now that I am older it would mean less.

These ppl are victims of their own choices and desperation…Some of these stories are unreal 😂😂😂

It’s hard to feel sorry for any of these women, but especially Anne Marie. She’s lucky her boy toy didn’t hurt (or worse) her kids. I’m sure they’re scarred for life as it is.

She's spending tons of money trying to get two thousand pounds back? 🤔

They know how to prey on vulnerable women . If someone told me he loved me after a few days , I would be running !

I am constantly astonished at the gullibility of some adult women. Alarm bells should ring loudly the second a man in a new relationship asks you for money, or in fact when a man young enough to be your son starts hitting on you in (or from) a foreign land.

He beat her with a belt buckle and she stayed with him and continued to support him. That’s not irrational, it’s mental illness.

I was in Turkey and Tunisia with my grown daughter, and we actually hated it how we kept being harassed, we just wanted to enjoy ourselves, not constantly having guys trying to hit on you, and it’s obvious to myself AND my daughter what there after! P.s. Taher probably never was a lawyer , all those Egyptians say there Doctors, Engineers, lawyers etc, and usually say they need to move out of Egypt so they can get work! And why didn’t the women whose men were living in U.K., threaten them with immigration?? Ann Marie’s guy stayed with her 5 yrs for money and probably had his U.K. citizenship by then! Majority of these guys are professional hustlers!

My motto…”If it’s too good to be true, most likely it’s false!” Predators are always on the hunt! Prayers for all affected 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

People also tried to marry me for a "green card" but luckily did not materialize. It is so sad these ladies were being used for visas.

I’m shaking my head at Annmarie. She is lucky she escaped with her life & now she wants to track Omar down to help cover the debt she says she was coerced to take out?! She put her children through so much. She’s lucky they still speak to her. How can these old women be so foolish?! Where is the wisdom of age? They also don’t have a mirror! I have a suggestion, *get a dog!* SMH! 🇨🇦

It's so sad to hear what these women had to endure. I have been single for a few years now and let me tell you, I have never been happier.

I don't believe the one rat was even a lawyer. How can a lawyer get fired for being one unless he did something horrible causing him to lose his ability to practice.

Never trust a man who treats you like an ATM

The very first time he hit you was all you needed to know he was wrong for you.

Five years depressed after the young husband taking off when he received his passport. Your worth more than that. These are players of the highest order. When a very young man wants a much older woman beware. I wish these women well, love yourself ❤

This is so sad. This is concerning, and I confirmed to stay single, regardless messing with a man in the states or afar; I rather be alone. Thank you ladies in this documentary for your transparency.

When I was 32, I met a guy who was 20. We had a bit of a fling. Then he asked to ‘borrow’ £60. I didn’t fancy him anymore after that because he’s clearly a loser 😂 He tried to contact me a while later and I ignored him because the asking for money thing put me off him. He’s pathetic. These women are so gullible. How can they be attracted to a man who asks for money. Men are supposed to provide. It’s biological.

Any middle aged woman (especially westerns) or even seniors believing an attractive young man is in for the love has herself to blame. Men don’t date women way older than them except for money. There might be cases wherein a young man genuinely fell in love with a much older woman but that’s like one in million.

I rather be alone. I enjoy my own company 😌

Call me a cynic, but I don't think I would trust a man that would say i love you to me in two weeks and starts asking for money.

A lawyer who can’t get another job is a huge red flag. Also I’m missing the whole “exotic” vibe… these dudes are just scroungers.

There’s plenty of men like that everywhere. Sociopaths. Want to take an advantage of you. The only way to protect yourself is to be sober, humble and objective. The main question that you have to ask is why? Why is this much younger guy is attracted to you when he has much more to choose from.

The last lady they interviewed who said she found love again and she is taking a risk is out of her mind! She lives by the 3 strike rule!

I can’t fathom being this naive at their age

It’s great your doing this to warn these ladies traveling to these exotic places

Ladies please learn to love and respect yourself, don’t even bother about these type of men.

Real Men wouldn't ask you for money. They'd make their own or find a way to support themselves.

Ladies,when a man 20-30 years younger falls for you bells should be ringing.

They always say “ I was never looking” for a relationship” No one said you were It’s about what you do, if you decide to 😂😂😂

I cannot believe that Anne-Marie move a man who she barely knew into her house with her children, smh.

Gosh the lady at the end with another Turkish man run 🏃‍♀️ but some people never learn so it’s her fault what ever happens to her

how people can still fall for this is a mystery in itself

Tracy says she's really happy with her new young man. Then let go of the other guy and move on.

Shame on Ann Marie for putting her kids through all that.

I waa shocked at the ending of this documentary. The writing is on the wall for this lady.