She thought she was finding love, but a woman from Massachusetts ended up losing her life savings in an apparent online dating scam. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous and will be referred to in this story as Alice, met her online partner back in October on Facebook’s dating feature. She was under the impression that she was chatting…
"At first, I was kind of cautious about it; I did ask and question, I did get a copy of his passport," Alice said."And in April, I sent him the first amount of money, and that seemed good. He sent me a tracking of the package for the pump and that sort of stuff and that was supposed to help him finish his job he was coming home.
Over the phone, he told us that he was not scamming Alice, and that he planned to return her money to her when he got back to the United States at the end of July. "Some of the loss amounts are too small to dedicate resources to," Domin said."We can see from a larger scale that this is actually a crime problem we need to address and investigate."
"I would first recommend they first contract the bank that money is being sent from, let them know it’s a fraudulent transaction, and then I would report it IC3.gov," Domin said."We encourage people to have conversations with friends and family about security." In Massachusetts in 2022, there were 296 reported cases of this type of scheme, resulting in a reported loss of $9,303,384.
After Alice said she realized that she was being scammed, she contacted the bank's fraud department and also tried recalling the wire transfers — all to no avail.
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