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Internet love hoax leads fan on nine-hour goosechase to Aberdeen

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Published Date: 17 February 2009
THE humiliating moment a man found he had been tricked into travelling hundreds of miles to meet a "woman" he fell in love with online was fast becoming an online hit last night.
Stuart Slann, 39, drove from his Sheffield home to Aberdeen last month to meet "Emma", a girl he met on Facebook, only to find she had been created by two rival football fans he met on holiday.

Now a phone call the married Manchester United fan re
ceived from two Liverpool supporters, revealing the hoax, has attracted almost 50,000 hits on YouTube.

The video begins with the words: "This is Stuart Slann. Stuart drove 500 miles to meet Emma, a girl he fell in love with on Facebook." It then plays the phone conversation, in which the men asked Mr Slann: "Do you recognise our voices, Stuart?

"It's them Scouse lads who threw you in the pool. Do you recognise our Scouse accents?" He replied: "Yes I do." He was told "You've been framed" by the men, who burst into laughter.

Mr Slann, whose wife reportedly left him after discovering his actions, said he was on the road for nine hours on the night he tried to visit Emma.

Mr Slann and the unnamed Liverpool fans are believed to have met in Cancun, Mexico, in November. After returning, the men set up a Facebook account featuring "Emma", and exchanged e-mails and text messages with their target before inviting him to Aberdeen.



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  • Last Updated: 16 February 2009 11:27 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: YouTube
 
1

danbob,

17/02/2009 00:24:40
Very funny but also tragic. Tragic in the sense that it shows the internet can take over and destroy peoples lives.
2

Tatties ower the side,

Johannesburg 17/02/2009 02:40:30
#1 Dan

The internet did not cause this guy to be stupip. He did it all on his own!!!!!!
3

Tatties ower the side,

Johannesburg 17/02/2009 02:41:32
Sorry. "stupid" not "stupip"
4

Miss A.,

17/02/2009 03:10:13
This is a very sad story and the ones responsilbe should be ashamed of themselves for preying on someone so gullible. There is nothing funny about it.
5

Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 17/02/2009 09:53:58
#2:

Correct. If he hadn't done that then he probably would have been only too eager to help Mr Umbungo Balawe relieve a Nigerian government agency of £98,000,000,000 USD (sic) by sending him several thousand pounds and giving him his bank account details.

#4:

"There is nothing funny about it."

You are quite right. There isn't anything funny about it. It's tragic. Tragic that someone can be so categorically stupid as to go along with this kind of thing.
6

Few Against Many,

17/02/2009 10:26:54
He was married, got what he deserved for being a sleeze bag.
7

Calum Crubag,

17/02/2009 13:25:22
#1 Danbob - i agree. People never used to run off with other women/ guys before the internet came. Ban it!
8

Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 17/02/2009 13:33:50
#6:

Good point. I hope she's got a nice big rolling pin with which to greet him when he returns home.
9

Stan Butler,

17/02/2009 14:07:17

Goosechase to Aberdeen?

I suppose it makes a change from sheep.
10

Dan,

Englandshire 18/02/2009 10:16:31
#4 - "This is a very sad story and the ones responsilbe should be ashamed of themselves for preying on someone so gullible. There is nothing funny about it."

Actually, there's lots funny about it. There are other details such as Mr Slann sending, at "Emma"'s request, a picture of his manhood while on his way up, and then Mr Slann recieveing a phone call from the scousers letting him know that he's been set up. Apparently even Mr Slann has had a rye chuckle at it.
The only people I feel sorry for in this are his family. Well done to the two scousers involved.

 

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