Saturday, 09 August 2014 06:11 How fake Qantas pilot tricked women TO the women he met on dating websites, he was a sophisticated gentleman who travelled the world as a pilot for Australias top airline. In reality, Timothy Giles was an unemployed former toilet cleaner who backed up his lies with pictures downloaded from the internet. He claimed one image of an actual real pilot was him, and used photographs of exotic locations to pretend he was living a glamorous lifestyle. ‘Ladies’ man’ Giles, 46, dated a number of women at the same time before getting victims to part with cash, claiming to have left his credit card on a foreign trip. But last year his string of lies was discovered and he was arrested at the home of an unsuspecting 40-year-old woman in East Devon. Yesterday she told how she was fooled into parting with cash after a four-month relationship. “His story was that he was an airline pilot working for Qantas,” she said. “He would stay at mine a lot and leave at silly o’clock to say he was driving back to Heathrow. “I now know he was going to see another woman. He had details about his job, parents, house and past life. “He had a complete life mapped out.” The mother-of-two, who has asked not to be named, added: “He would text me his “current view” of a hotel or beach in the Indian Ocean. “But it was all just downloaded off the internet — just like the photo he initially sent me in a pilot’s uniform.” Magistrates were told Giles was previously convicted of posing as a policeman in Somerset in 2013. He had also previously duped a woman into believing he was a fireman. His con has echoes of the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can in which Leonardo DiCaprio stars as real-life fraudster Frank Abagnale, who carried out a series of cons including impersonating a Pan American World Airways pilot, a doctor and a lawyer.
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