Kerryann Williams, 33, used pictures of attractive women on a string of dating sites, including Plenty of Fish, to con men out of £20,000 - she has been jailed for two years

A fat fraudster who posed as beautiful women on dating sites to con men out of £20,000 has been jailed for two years.

Kerryann Williams, 33, used pictures of attractive women on a string of dating sites, including Plenty of Fish.

She then contacted single men looking for love and duped them into giving her money or sending her mobile phones.

She avoided meeting her victims and conned 19 men.

The 33-year-old tricked one pensioner on four separate occasions using different profiles, fleecing him for £6,000.

She told the 68-year-old she would be his carer but each time he gave her money, she stopped messaging him and set up a new profile before going through the scam again.

Williams, from Thatcham in Berkshire, used Plenty of Fish, Tagged.com, Hi5.com and Facebook to carry out her frauds.

She tricked her victims by claiming she was a victim of domestic abuse and needed help.

She then told her victims would travel by train to see them but avoided meeting them by claiming there were engineering works, delays or a crisis which meant she could not make the trip.

However her actions aroused suspicion and one victim hired a private investigator while another informed police.

After being caught, Williams admitted two counts of fraud by false representation and asked for 17 frauds to be taken into consideration.

Recorder Nicolas Gerasimidis jailed her for two years at Portsmouth Crown Court and described her frauds as 'carefully executed offences'.

He said: 'These were, in my judgement, mean offences. You knew perfectly well what you were doing.

'These were carefully planned, carefully executed offences.

'The lies were spun, woven, in a way which caused your victims to believe what was being said to them.'

Williams posed as beautiful women on dating sites to con men out of £20,000

Speaking after she was jailed, the 68-year-old victim, from Portsmouth, said: 'I've had a nervous breakdown due to what she put me through.'

During the fraud, he travelled to Slough and Reading to give Williams nine phones after she begged him for them.

He never met her but he handed handsets to other people on her behalf.

The pensioner, who suffers from asbestosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, is still paying out on the contracts.

He added: 'I did get visits from two debt collectors from the phone company.

'I don't think there's a remote chance I'll get my money back but I'm satisfied with the two years - she deserved that.'

Another victim, aged 76, sent her two phones and was conned out of £4,760, believing he was speaking to a woman called Tara Smith.