From UPI.com: Man gave $200K to fake online girlfriend.NAPERVILLE, Ill., Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Police in Illinois said a man "was in disbelief" when officers told him the online girlfriend to whom he had given $200,000 was not a real person.
Naperville police said the 48-year-old man called investigators Wednesday to say he believed the woman, with whom he had been involved in a 2 1/2-year online relationship, had been kidnapped in London, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday.
The man told police he had wired $200,000 to the woman during the relationship to different bank accounts in Nigeria, Malaysia, England and the United States.
Investigators said the ID card the woman showed the man was a sample driver's license from Florida.
The man "was in disbelief" when officers told him the woman was not real, police said.
Obviously, the poor fellow hasn't read my blog. If he had read my eleven part series on scammer Kelvin Williams he may not have fallen for the scam.
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