The 48-year-old man called Naperville police on Wednesday to ask for help rescuing the woman, who he believed had been kidnapped in London, police said.
He told police he started the online relationship 2 1/2 years ago. Since then, he had wired about $200,000 total to several different bank accounts in Nigeria, Malaysia, England and the United States, police said. An identification card the woman provided to him ended up being a sample driver’s licence from Florida.
Police said when an officer told the man the “woman” he was sending money to didn’t exist, he “was in disbelief.”
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Is he mentally challenged? Seriously... how can anybody be that stupid? He's online, so he's not living under a rock. And yet he hasn't heard of these scams?
Unbelievable. A fool and his money are soon parted.
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