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TIL Serial conman, Derek Alldred, created fake lives in order to deplete women of their savings. Derek scammed a dozen women out of $1 million dollars, until his victims united to help cops charge him with 2 counts of identity theft and one count of mail fraud, a penalty of 24 years in prison.

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