Love to the younger women and compassion and companionship to the older women were sold by at least 12 African nationals (Nigerians in the majority) who impersonated the doctors on Facebook, created platonic relationships with them and extorted large sums of money from them.

In total, the perpetrators extorted the sum of 206,000 euros from their victims.

The first complaint was made by a 77-year-old whose Nigerian gigolo fake doctors gradually ate 152,000 euros from her.

Through Facebook, one of the perpetrators approached her and appeared to her as an orthopedic surgeon in Yemen on a UN mission in the war zone, who was also raising his 3 children alone because his wife had left him.

The… drama of the fake doctor continued with the problem of the blocked pension and so the old woman started sending him money so that the “orthopedic” could return to Greece and they could now all live together, like a family.

“Send me money to unblock my pension in Nigeria, signed by UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez himself (he also presented her with a document). Then I will be able to take the children and return to my beloved Greece and we will live a unique and beautiful life. Then there will be no financial problem for me, there will only be us…” the Nigerian wrote to her.

The elderly woman, expecting companionship, finally gave him 152,000 euros until she realized the fraud and denounced him.

In a 42-year-old woman from the Peloponnese, the perpetrators even ordered a wedding.

“When I collect the money I will come to Greece – where I have lived a few years ago – we will live our love in the Greek islands and we will get married in Santorini” wrote the “pathologist” from Canada in his messages to the victim.

The perpetrators had even presented photographs of Greek hospitals where they were supposed to have worked, in order to justify the two Greek bank accounts in which the victims deposited the money.