Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron scammed by Russian fraudsters; here’s how
Live MintBritish Foreign Secretary David Cameron has been scammed by a Russian impostor who he spoke to thinking it was the former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. In a video published by Guido Fawkes, Cameron is heard saying that he does not think Britain’s approach to the Ukraine war would change under a Labour government. The pair is renowned within Russia for having tricked numerous Western politicians throughout the years, such as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Britain's former defence minister in 2022, Ben Wallace. ‘Kremlin spreading disinformation’ A spokesperson for Britain's Foreign Office, in a statement, said that they made public the fact that this call happened weeks ago, “to do the right thing and make sure others were warned of the risk at the earliest opportunity.”
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