A GROUP of women spanning across the U.S. have banded together to take down a conman they say married many of them and squandered their life savings.

    Richard Scott Smith, 46, of Lenexa, Kansas, left behind him a trail of fraud, forgery, deceit, bigamy, and at least one case of assault.

    Those scorned by him are now seeking justice after one woman launched a blog — “Scott The Crook Smith” — exposing his lies and connected with his other victims, who have since all become best friends.

    Lisa Lenton, who is still technically married to Smith, began the blog to document her experience with Smith — which was later discovered by other women who had also been married to him.

    When Smith was questioned by police in January, he told them that he thought he’d been married five times. According to the blog, his sister believes he could have had as many as eight or nine wives.

    Lenton married Smith in Georgia in April of 2012. After a few months, she left him, but has not yet been able to have their marriage annulled. Fortunately for her, she had the foresight to block him from accessing her finances.

    “When I left, I froze my accounts,” she told the Kansas City Star.

    “I’m glad I did.”

    Another victim Jean Hansen was not so lucky. She and Smith flew to Las Vegas in August 2015 and were wed after hitting it off at a singles group.

    “He tells great stories,” she said.

    “It’s part of his charm.”

    She later realized, however, that “every word out of his mouth is a lie.”

    Hansen learned that Smith was already married to Lenton after seeing her blog, and was granted an annulment in Johnson County court last year.

    She also learned that he had apparently been seeing another woman he met in June 2015 — a month before they were married.

    That woman, whose name has been redacted from court documents, was later engaged to Smith. During a business trip to Kansas City in September 2015, Smith allegedly assaulted her and was arrested for domestic abuse.

    Another Kansas woman, Holly Koch, became a victim of Smith’s in 2014, and successfully sued him for US$90,000 but has yet to receive any payouts from the conman. She joined his faulty business with him after the two met on an online dating site.

    (SD-Agencies)