Sympathy is OK, Saoirse, support is better.
Definition of Fraud
'criminal deception, the use of false representation to gain an unjust advantage, a dishonest artifice or trick'
That,to me, amounts to stealing.:

This has been a long, hard, stressful battle for Elaina, two and half, three years of trying to get her money back through the Courts. AliBaba doesn't even turn up to the hearings.
Just hope that any lady who goes to the restaurant by herself has read this forum and doesn't get sucked in by him. Slicker than an oil spill