MAN GIVES A WOMAN $300k ON A DATING SITE

BEFORE FINDING OUT PROFILE IS

FAKE!!


PERSON USING FAKE ONLINE DATING SITE PROFILE

STEALS $300,000 FROM MAN

A really really trusting man was catfished by a person online who pretended to be a pretty young woman and befriended him.  The person used a picture of a model in an online dating profile and the two exchanged emails for quite some time.  The older gentleman truly believed that the person in what was later determined to be a fake dating site profile, loved him.  He was so in love with the person using the fake profile that he sent the model he believed that he was talking to over $300,000.  Yes, he sent a random person he met on a dating site several hundred thousand dollars before his daughter discovered what was happening.  The man, who is pretty damn old and was sadly looking for love after his wife died, thought he had finally found happiness – in the world of online dating.  Instead, he found his bank account getting smaller and smaller as he was tricked into sending his online love interests money.  The man even traveled to London over 14 times, thinking he would meet the woman who he was talking to on the dating site.  Never happened.  Thanks to the Catfish, the man even lost his home to foreclosure.

 

LESSON:  DON’T GIVE MONEY TO PEOPLE YOU MEET ON THE INTERNET.  EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, DON’T GIVE MONEY TO PEOPLE FROM DATING SITES THAT YOU HAVE NEVER MET BEFORE.