A woman in the U.S. has lost thousands of dollars after she willingly sent the money to a man she’d never even met. Authorities say she “fell in love” with a man on a dating site who then duped her into sending him the cash. The two singles met on the dating site match.com.
‘Jason Miller’ and the woman began a relationship online. According to her, “He always talked nice, sweet, didn’t try to lure me into bed and that kind of stuff.” ‘Jason’ told her he was living in London as a model.
He said that his mother was in the hospital, business wasn’t good and he needed money so the victim wired him $5,000 several times to London.
A friend of the woman’s eventually spotted ‘Jason’s picture on two other profiles; he was using different names and stories altogether.
After two months and $20,000 later, she contacted police and wrote him a final e-mail to which – surprise, surprise – he never replied. ’Jason,’ or whatever his name really is, then deleted all of his match.com accounts.
Authorities say the chances of catching the guy and recovering the money are close to zero.
I’m sorry but how can someone fall in love without meeting the person?! You can see why scammers use dating sites when there are so many vulnerable women, and I’m sure men, online who will believe whatever they are told in the hope that they have found ‘the one’.
