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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Seniors targeted for Online Dating Scams

The 80-year-old spent $500,000 on his new girlfriend—whom he’d never met. The online romance began with an e-mail (from supposedly a dating service) from a young nurse in Ghana who said she would take care of him. Then requests for money followed. The man’s son believed that the “nurse” was likely a male con artist.

http://robertsiciliano.com/blog/2013/12/22/seniors-targeted-for-online-dating-scams/