Iris Jones, 83, is now a scam hunter after her experiences with love (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX)
A grandma who split up with her 37-year-old husband is now a scam hunter and has revealed a conman threatened to send her a bomb.
Iris Jones, 83, from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, married Mohamed Ibrahim but says she was left thousands of pounds out of pocket by him.
In a Facebook post written last week, she revealed she now hunts scam artists who fool women online.
A man who claimed to be from the American air force working in Yemen got in contact with Iris.
She said: ‘He asked me to send him £2,740 and I asked him how do I send it over? Just to tease him – I like to taunt them now.
‘It wasn’t ‘hi honey’, or anything like that, when I asked him what his favourite food was I expected him to say hamburger, or hotdogs or popcorn – but it was rice.
‘I called him something I can’t share online – and then he said “give me your location, I’m going to bomb you – not a love bomb this time, a real bomb”.
‘There must be a conveyer belt in these places where there are all these scammers and gold diggers who have all these women lined up and they pass you from pillar to post.
Iris who used to be with Mohamed has now offered tips to avoid dating scams (Picture: Facebook)
She said someone threatened to send her a bomb (Picture: SWNS)
Mohamed claimed Iris used him as his sex slave (Picture: Facebook/Iris Jones)
‘They don’t think of you as a person – you’re just a name.’
Since Iris has turned into a scam hunter she has offered tips as to how to spot scammers.
She added: ‘Usually they send a very handsome picture of themselves, often working on an oil rig or in another country or in the army.
‘These pictures are not them – they are are pictures of genuine men and I think some of them know they are being used.
‘Also, a lot of the time they want to come off Facebook, or the dating app or Facebook dating site and then want to go onto WhatsApp because “it is more private”.
‘That is a red flag.
‘I am on scam alert and I would recommend it for people too as they tell you what to look out for.
‘Then there is the love bombing – after a couple of days of messaging they tell you they love you, and they are narcissists.
‘Often they use broken English – and they always ask you “how was your day, how was your night, what have you had to eat, how’s the family”.
‘When they ask you to send money they will always tell you to keep it a secret and not go to the bank.’
Iris previously hit out at Mohamed who claimed she used him as a ‘sex slave’.
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She met him on a Facebook group about atheism, before he then flew from Cairo in November 2019 to meet her in person.
They married at a low-key ceremony in Cairo and celebrated with a KFC for their honeymoon.
But it just wasn’t meant to be, as the pair split earlier in 2023.
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