NEW PALESTINE, Ind. (Gray News) - A Texas woman admitted to scamming more than $1.2 million from her online boyfriend to finance her lifestyle, authorities said.

Prosecutors said 46-year-old Lorraine Marie Rew befriended a man from Indiana on social media and began a relationship with him.

From October 2020 through February 2022, Rew told the man that she needed the money to pay for her daughter’s surgeries along with heart medication for herself.

The man gathered the funds by drawing from his personal IRA, a mutual fund, checking and savings accounts. Along with that, he also used cash advances and personal loans, WXIN reported.


In reality, Rew nor her daughter had accounts with the hospital. She used the money to gamble at numerous casinos in Oklahoma.

Investigators said she visited one casino 157 times over six months.

To cover up her lies, the 46-year-old woman made fake email accounts pretending to be her employer and promised the man that he would be reimbursed, WXIN reported.

“Sadly, this is a case in which the victim’s heart was in the right place and the alleged perpetrator took advantage of that,” said Prosecutor Eaton.

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