Fraudster posing as Sam Heughan scams woman out £10,000 and her engagement ring

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A gran lost £10,000 to an Instagram cryptocurrency scammer - who posed as Outlander actor Sam Heughan. Superfan Mary Ryland, 72, even sold her engagement ring to fund the con - and has been left devastated.The crook posed as actor Sam and sent her a message - and the pair began communicating back and forth.

They even sent sceptical Mary a photo of a fake passport to convince her he was the real deal.And after months of messaging back and forth, retired florist Mary was convinced to deposit money into a cryptocurrency account.The fraudster sent her fake graphs which said her investment was growing, encouraging her to deposit a total of £10,000 - £5,000 of which she was convinced by the scammers that she needed to send to 'withdraw the money'She eventually realised she was being scammed after reading about another woman who had fallen victim to a similar scam.

But she hasn't been able to recover any of her cash. Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. Mary, originally from Preston, Lancashire, but now living in Cornwall, said: "It fooled me terribly.

It was horrible. I really thought it was Sam. The scammer even sent me a passport with a name, date and it really fooled me. "I think I'm a bit of a sucker for a sob story and celebrity impersonators.