Ulladulla police say she may be the same woman who relieved another man of up to $100,000 as far back as 18 months ago.

Local sector supervisor Sergeant Greg Churchill has warned the local community, especially vulnerable older men, to be alert for a possible sex swindler.

The man’s mature aged daughter from the Ulladulla area, who was too distressed to reveal her family name publicly, came forward as she wanted to warn others.

“This woman drew Dad in but he insists the money was not in exchange for sexual services,” she said.

She discovered the alleged rip-off a month ago when her father told her he was going to lend his caravan to a Filipino woman he’d met so she could bring her three children from Sydney to live with her.

This triggered his daughter’s questions and she quickly discovered he had already voluntarily given the woman amounts between $1000 and $6000 on 16 separate occasions and as often as three times a week, since October 20 last year.

The woman described as “attractive mid 30s” advertised via newspaper adult services sections for “mature men only” in June 2014.

“My father was the perfect target, 83 years old, lonely, living by himself in his own home in Jervis Bay after Mum died two years ago,” his daughter said.

Sergeant Churchill said, “men should not give their money away – it makes it very, very difficult for us to prosecute – and they should not be so gullible”.

Police recorded an event number and have identified the woman’s car as a white late model Mitsubishi, registered to an owner living on Sydney’s North Shore but have not attempted to lay fraud charges because the man paid willingly.

Police were told the man made loans to her after she told him a number of hard luck stories, he felt sorry for her and she promised to pay the money back. 

The woman variously claimed her father in the Philippines needed open heart surgery, then she was at risk of losing her job at a nearby retirement home because her car had run out of registration.

The retirement home said it never employed her.

Then she needed money for an operation for her mother, also back home in the Philippines.

He has not seen any returns.

“As soon as those requests for money start, men should cut them off,” Sergeant Churchill said.

The man’s daughter said her father did not realise the total he had given Lisa progressively over the five months.

“She would drive him to either of two banks where he held accounts to withdraw money but would never accompany him inside,” she told the Times.

“He shouted ‘Holy Jesus’ when I told him the total he’d transferred from his term deposit accounts to his passbooks – $44,900 from one bank, $19,000 from the other and then to her.”

His daughter holds Power of Attorney and added her name so his accounts now need two signatories and has belatedly stopped the cash haemorrhage.

She questions both banks’ due diligence, saying that while one questioned her father about his uncustomary large withdrawals at short intervals – and the manager told him it looked like a scam – both failed to alert her.

The sex worker has continued to phone her father periodically.

The adult services advertisement ran regularly with the same wording but different phone numbers and different names.

The same phone number published in the ads also appeared in ads inviting share accommodation in Nowra.