Dating Fraud
• Online Dating
Why there is talk of laws to protect people from cyber-romance fraudsters:
The biggest problem with Internet dating is the snake oil. There is, for starters, the guy in Atlantic City who just pleaded guilty to 10 counts of wire fraud for scamming women around the country with fake Internet profiles. He’d tell women he met online that he needed money to move to their area, then spend it at the roulette table. There’s the Arizona man who shelled out $2,000 for plane tickets to fly in a Russian beauty who had written to him, breathlessly, “Every time, when I reading your letter, my mood become well and my heart is knocking so strong!” She never showed. Or the guy in Australia who defrauded a bunch of elderly people of their money to transport his Internet “girlfriend,” a “North American model,” to Australia. She never showed, either. He’s in jail. G’day, mate!