Serial con artists beware; your preying upon vulnerable people for your own gains could get you locked up indefinitely.

That’s the lesson Alberta fraudster Jeff Kent learned last week when a Court of King’s Bench judge declared him a dangerous offender and handed him an indeterminate prison term.

As noted by Postmedia Edmonton colleague Jonny Wakefield, Justice Melanie Hayes-Richards found Kent’s repeated preying upon women he met on dating sites while concocting elaborate schemes to defraud tens of thousands of dollars from five victims.

The dangerous offender tag is usually reserved for the most violent of criminals, usually serial sex offenders who can’t resist their urges to violate victims for their own perverse gratification.

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