I matched with a rapper on Tinder but he ended up scammed me out of £30k – & that wasn’t even the shocking bit

Yvette Williams thought she’d recovered emotion erstwhile she connected with American rapper Lydell Birch, aka Moka Blast, connected Tinder successful 2019.

But aft being love-bombed and drawn into his promises of entrepreneurship and music success, Yvette gave him implicit £30,000 to money his ventures.

When she refused to remortgage her location for him, Lydell chopped her disconnected - and the communicative took an adjacent much sour turn.

Sharing however her life abruptly turned upside down to This Morning presenters Ben Shepard and Cat Deeley, Yvette explained however astatine first, it seemed similar a existent romance story.

''I met him connected Tinder, we started to communicate. He was very, precise attentive, helium showed a batch of involvement successful my life, told maine a batch astir his aboriginal life.''

After the Tinder lucifer had been speaking for a portion connected a regular basis, Yvette decided to yet conscionable the antheral successful idiosyncratic and jetted disconnected to Las Vegas, the US.

There, they spent a batch of clip together, with the rapper taking Yvette to his workplace and talking astir the concern ventures helium was allegedly moving on, including a barber shop.

''[He] spoke astir having professional athletes that would beryllium utilizing the barber store erstwhile helium afloat established it - it was a bully holiday.''

As the mates grew closer, Lydell, 45, besides flew to London wherever helium hung retired with Yvette's family.

''He played video games with my son, met my mum and met my nephew who's funny successful euphony and [it] was spoken astir possibly trying to assistance him get successful interaction with musicians.''

With the rapper doing each the close things, the mum had nary crushed to fishy immoderate ulterior motives - however, alarm bells started to ringing erstwhile Lydell began to inquire for money.

''There was a clip earlier I adjacent went to Vegas, helium was successful Turkey and helium spoke astir having to stock a country with idiosyncratic and helium recovered it truly difficult.

''So helium asked if I could lend him immoderate wealth truthful that helium could get a abstracted country - and it was ever 'lend' and helium would wage maine back.

''I was blessed to bash that, it wasn't a ample magnitude of money, it was for a circumstantial purpose.''

The 45-year-old was allegedly successful the process of establishing his barber shop, which required a large chunk of wealth for funding, Yvette explaining wherefore she wasn't questioning the rapper.

According to the mum, the instrumentalist was ever capable to contiguous her with ''a batch of information'' and piles of documents to backmost up the task claims.

Soon, things escalated erstwhile Lydell needed wealth which helium claimed was for buying furnishings for the barber shop.

''He was ever saying 'I'm gonna beryllium a millionaire. [...] The barber store is gonna beryllium unfastened 24/7', helium was gonna person TV successful the floor. It looked very, precise professional.''

The rapper made promises to springiness her the currency backmost erstwhile the concern was up and moving - and adjacent asked Yvette to remortgage her home.

''In the backmost of my mind, I wasn't going to bash it. I reached retired to immoderate organisations but I made it precise wide that it was for him and helium had provided his concern plan.

''His demeanor towards maine changed due to the fact that it wasn't palmy - arsenic I knew it wasn't going to beryllium palmy - [...] and helium started to backmost disconnected a bit.

It wasn't agelong aft that the rapper chopped each interaction with Yvette - but overmuch to her surprise, the acheronian section successful her beingness with Lydell wasn't yet over.

The rapper appeared connected an interrogation posted connected YouTube and soon galore women started to assertion that they had fallen unfortunate to his love-bombing scam.

''I contacted his person and helium said determination were hundreds of women. It wasn't conscionable successful America and not conscionable successful London - it was each implicit the world.

''Wherever helium went, determination was a pistillate helium was successful a 'relationship' with oregon made them judge helium was successful a 'relationship' with.

''Then I started to spell connected social media conscionable to spot if I could talk to someone, to effort to marque radical alert that this is what's going on.''

Determined to find retired the truth, Yvette joined a Facebook radical with astir 4,000 women claiming they had besides lent him wealth which helium ne'er repaid.

“I accidental helium has nary type,” Becky Barnes, an ex-girlfriend told the 8 News Now Investigators.

“His benignant is bully credit.”

Becky said Lydell inactive owes her much than $27,000 (£22k) aft helium said helium needed wealth for tires connected his car, his electrical bill, and backing for concern purposes.

Another victim, Tammy Englan, claimed she besides thought she was successful a monogamous relationship with the rapper and that helium inactive owes her adjacent to $6,000 - oregon astir £5,000.

“That’s truly embarrassing,” Tammy said.

“It’s ever been nether the premise that helium was going to wage maine back.”

Initially, Yvette said, she was devastated.

''Then I felt ashamed that I was duped by him. But by speaking to the different women, [I realised] helium does it truthful well. He is simply a professional, it's similar his full-time job.

''He knows however to play the crippled [...] but I needed to instrumentality backmost my powerfulness to marque definite that radical are alert that determination are radical similar him retired there,'' said Yvette who's since go the moderator of the Facebook page.

Shockingly, Lydell is inactive retired there. He hasn't replied to ITV.

In the past, helium has said connected YouTube: ''These women gave maine their wealth retired of their ain escaped volition - however is that a romance scam?

''They gave maine wealth and I gave them a bully time.''

Yvette believes that the accidental of her ever getting immoderate of the wealth backmost is astir non-existent.

Warning others, the mum said: ''Be conscious, beryllium aware. Do probe erstwhile you conscionable someone, spell online, enactment their sanction successful Google and find retired a spot much astir them.

''How radical represent themselves isn't needfully who they are.''