A MAN left with a £631 phone bill after a relationship with a woman he met on a dating website is warning others to be wary.

Security officer Timothy Brown said he spent hours talking to the woman after meeting her on Oasis Dating.

His contract with network operator EE gives him free calls to other networks, so he said he was shocked to be told he had “gone over his credit limit”.

The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau in London is now assessing his case, to see whether it should be investigated further.

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The 47-year-old, who lives in Calthorpe Road, Banbury, said he thought he had begun a real relationship with the woman.

He said: “I was convinced it was genuine. We had a lot in common, we had a lot of deep conversations.”

Mr Brown, who works night shifts, met the woman who said she lived in Plymouth, on oasisdating.com two weeks ago.

Within days, she gave him her personal mobile phone number.

He said he made a “large number” of calls to the woman, some two hours or longer, a few in the early hours of the morning.

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Then EE told him he had exceeded his credit limit of £550 and was asked to pay £631 by November 10.

He spoke to the woman again and asked her: “What have you done to me? That’s no ordinary mobile phone.”

He said she responded: “It is”, then he said the call was cut off.

Mr Brown said he has since tried calling her and sent several emails but had no response.

He said he wanted to warn other dating website users to beware of similar scams and not get tricked.

Oasis Dating did not respond to requests for a comment.

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