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说到英国军情六处特工,很多人都会想到英俊潇洒的007。
如果有人说自己是军情六处特工“008”,能开飞机,会说7种语言,想和你谈场恋爱结个婚,你会相信吗?
近日,曾冒充“007同事”的诈骗案嫌疑人马克·阿克隆(Mark Acklom)被判入狱5年零8个月。
阿克隆是英国头号逃犯之一,他也是个十足的感情骗子。
据警方称,45岁的阿克隆在短短一年时间内,从离异女子卡罗琳·伍兹(Carolyn Woods)身上骗取了85万英镑,这几乎是她所有积蓄。

2012年的一天,阿克隆在伍兹工作的一家精品店买西装,他对伍兹“一见钟情”,开始主动搭讪追求伍兹。

当时他谎称自己是瑞士银行家,说自己访英的目的是收购一块机场用地。

很快两人就确定了关系,但伍兹后来发现阿克隆有老婆和孩子,阿克隆又告诉她,那只是个幌子,他的真实身份是军情六处的特工。

谈到这位“特工”,伍兹回忆说:

“他很有风度和魅力,散发着自信,连他周围的空气都充满了能量。我情难自已。”

He has a great presence and charisma, he exudes confidence and the air around him was electric. I was caught up in a whirlwind of excitement.

一年不到的时间,阿克隆答应和伍兹结婚,并骗她交出了毕生积蓄。

可还没等伍兹穿上为婚礼准备的婚纱,阿克隆就从她生活中消失了。这使伍兹在情感和经济上都陷入了破产的边缘,险些自杀。

其实,伍兹只是被阿克隆骗财骗色的女性中的一名。一位阿克隆的“前合作伙伴”说:“他永远不会和这些女人走入婚姻的殿堂。在我认识他的十年里,他至少欺骗了50位女性。”

1973年出生的阿克隆从小接受着昂贵的私立学校教育,可他却不走寻常路,在学生时代就干起了诈骗的勾当。
1991年,阿克隆冒充伦敦金融城的股票经纪人,因46.6万英镑的抵押贷款欺诈案被判在少管所服刑四年。

他还偷父亲的信用卡花了1.1万英镑,骗取了一名前教师的1.3万英镑,并在一家私人包机公司欠下了3.4万英镑的账单。

He also spent £11,000 after stealing his father's credit card, swindled a former teacher out of £13,000 and ran up a £34,000 bill with a private charter jet company.

1998年,他因涉嫌诈骗住霸王酒店在西班牙被判入狱两年。
2004年,他在西班牙Benidorm被捕。他自称是一个房地产财团负责人,但警察在他身上只搜到1000欧元现金,也没有他所谓的要建房子的土地产权。
2007年,他获释不久后又再次入狱,他卷入了一桩1300万英镑的诈骗案而被西班牙法院判入狱27个月……

在诈骗了伍兹之后,他于2013年再次在西班牙入狱,原因是他欺骗了一对兄弟20万英镑的定金,出售自己并不拥有的房产。

After he scammed Ms Woods, he was jailed in Spain again in 2013 for defrauding two brothers into paying him £200,000 as a deposit on the sale of buildings that he did not own.

2002年曾上映过一部由真人真事改编的电影《猫鼠游戏》(Catch Me If You Can)。
小李子在里面饰演了一个犯罪天才,他对身份伪装、证件造假等信手拈来,靠着自己高超的骗术敛财无数,还能在躲避FBI之余谈谈恋爱。
媒体也曾引用这部电影来形容行骗多年的阿克隆。
2016年6月英国政府向全欧洲发布了逮捕令。
据英国国家犯罪局称,阿克隆主要在欧洲“活动”,他以为离开英国就能逃避抓捕,可事实并非如他所愿。

去年夏天,阿克隆在苏黎世的一所豪华公寓被捕,之后被引渡回了英国。

TAcklom was arrested at a luxury apartment in Zurich last summer and extradited back to the UK.

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The Telegraph:

A conman, who claimed to be an MI6 agent, before defrauding his ex-girlfriend out of £300,000 has been jailed for five years and eight months.

Mark Acklom, 46, duped Carolyn Woods into lending him her life savings after promising to marry her following a "whirlwind romance".

The Guardian:

A man has been jailed for five years and eight months for swindling his ex-girlfriend out of nearly £300,000 before disappearing without a trace.

Daily Mail:

A serial conman was today jailed for five years and eight months after he admitted wooing a divorcee by posing as an MI6 agent and fleecing her out of £299,000.

Mark Acklom, once an infamous schoolboy fraudster, also posed as a Swiss banker in a bid to seduce Carolyn Woods.

Over the course of a year-long relationship, Acklom, now 45, promised to marry the mother-of-two and tricked her into handing over her life savings.

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