A British newspaper is printing extracts from Cherie Booth Blair’s memoir’s -One of the extracts discuss how the UK’s ‘respected’ PM’s wife fell prey to an Ausie ‘diet tea’ conman.

In extracts of her memoirs published in British newspapers on Tuesday, the wife of former prime minister Tony Blair writes about the “nightmare” that engulfed them in late 2002.
At the time, the British media was full of controversy about how Foster, who was wanted for fraud on four continents, had advised Cherie over the purchase of two flats in Bristol.

So that Cherie doesn’t fall for a conman again, here are Mantuition’s top five tips for how to deal with a conman. There really are some pond-life men out there, just check this bunch of losers out:

Tip 1: Check whether their are squirrels in your roof before calling a builder

Cowboy builders have a notorious reputation, but I’d not heard of the ‘great phantom squirrel nest conman‘ until it was announced this week that one perpetrator was arrested:

Anthony Evans told his 88-year-old victim she needed urgent repairs to
her home which he would carry out.

As a result the she handed over more than £1,000 in return
for poor quality work - and the disposal of a squirrels nest which never existed.

Tip 2: Don’t give control of your finances to lonely-heart-advertisers:

A 61-year old man conned a woman out of life savings after she respond to his lonely hearts ad

Richard Wesley, of Albert Road, Corfe Mullen, deceived Mary Manning by claiming he needed money to help fund a car business.

Over a period of 11 months he slowly encouraged Mrs Manning to hand over her life savings in the belief the money would be repaid.

The retired acting head teacher was said to be happy with Wesley taking control of her finances.

Tip 3: Don’t give your details to men who advertise on TV that that they are conmen

In 2005, this useless chap was nabbed after bragging on a UK TV show

A BOASTING bank-card crook who stole people’s identities and brazenly changed his own name to I.D. Pass was jailed after appearing on TV show Trisha.

Fraudster Ian Pass, 52, was nicked after outraged host Trisha Goddard got cameras to zoom in on his face, warning viewers: ?Don’t let him con you.?

Tip 4: Don’t do any business with men dresed as fictional characters:

In 2004 COPS were hunting a conman who dresses like Sherlock Holmes and pretends to be a policeman.

The man, wearing a deerstalker hat like Arthur Conan-Doyle’s fictional hero, stole a £20,000 Toyota Previa from a showroom in Coulsdon, Surrey.

He pretended to be buying a fleet of cars for an operation involving Scotland Yard and MI5.

Tip 5: If you get jilted at the alter once - don’t go back TWO more times

This low-life conman left a woman at the alter 3 times before running off with her cash

A man who jilted his fiancée three times has been ordered to repay thousands of pounds she had given him or go to jail.

Ian Oldford, 41, ran off with £9,000 belonging to a widowed mother of three, Marie Hibberd, when she was five months pregnant with his child.

Three times Oldford, a car salesman from Taunton, Somerset, fixed dates for a church wedding and then cancelled at the last minute. On the last occasion Mrs Hibberd received a telephone call 20 minutes before the ceremony was due to start, telling her that he had been in a car accident and had to go to hospital. She never heard from him again.

Why are they nearly always second hand car dealers? - Anyway that wouldn’t be a problem for Cherie since she buys her cars new, even if they are the worst cars on the road

The gas-guzzling American-made seven-seater [bought by Blair] was picked out in the report by the magazine Which? Car as one of three new vehicles “with such poor safety ratings they should be avoided”.