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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.

Never underestimate the power of internet puzzy.

Retirement shot.........poor guy. Poor, dumb, gullible guy. Least they left his name out of it. I noticed they don' t mention if he was already married

Hope she gets what's coming to her.



BTW - THIS STORY IS FROM NOV 2022.

Dumbass!

Exactly. I don’t feel a bit of sympathy for him.
But she needs to go to jail.

Happening more than the news can cover. Just last night the local news ran a story about scams here in Colorado. Turns out that in 2023 alone, 11,475 people were scammed out 187.6 million.

One state, 187.6 million. So a wild estimate is Trillions scammed annually these days maybe?

Smh

Friend of mine is a retired Real Estate broker. He had a house and land listed here and a woman from North Carolina wanted to buy the place to move in with a guy here she had corresponded with on the internet. She also wanted to buy it and title it in the boyfriends name.
My buddy advised her to buy it in her name only but she insisted. She wrote a check for it. Then packed up moved her stuff to Arkansas and signed and closed the deal before even spending any time with the.man. Turns out he misrepresented himself online and she didn't like the guy at all. She shows up at my buddy's office wanting to back out of the deal a couple of weeks later. He told her nothing I can do the.place belongs to your boyfriend. She left and moved back to NC. The boyfriend still lives in his house. So every now and then a man scams a woman and gets the better end of the deal.

A fool and his money……

Actually I know a guy who is a very successful fund manager who recently got scammed by a gal from Taiwan. Same deal money for her mother among other things then a funding of her to fly over for the meet and greet in Vegas a couple of months ago which she of course didn’t appear at.
Beats me.

Osky

I just read about a guy who spends $10k a year on AI girlfriends...

Actually I almost feel like taking money from stupid people shouldn't even be illegal. Stupid should hurt. Maybe enough of this and society would smarten up. Lol

The joke is on you. Nobody believes a word you say.

Lol.

Most high earning OF girls make they money off a few "Pay Pigs", guys who will pay huge amounts of money for the perception of a human connection.

It's not exclusive to Boomers. Older folks have been preyed upon by scam artists forever. Some of my grandparents ran across some of this crap in their later years. Luckily when it happened, they still were mentally sharp enough to recognize it as B.S.. As P.T. Barnum famously remarked; "There's a sucker born every minute". The scam artists will just keep targeting folks 'cause they know eventually somebody will fall for it.

The Nigerian prince scam has been going on since Al Gore invented the internet because of 1 reason - it works. Some years ago, a guy from here in Idaho fell for it. He even went to Nigeria to get his money. He got very lucky. He only lost about $5k and he got home alive and healthy. Others haven't been that lucky.

An older lady my wife works with just got scammed out of her whole retirement by an online boyfriend. My wife tried to warn her months ago that it sounded like a scam and I told her it was definitely a scam. She got really upset and made a complaint at work so we were basically told to mind our own.

Now that she's broke she keeps complaining to my wife about her financial problems. I found out my wife had given her some money and so we had a talk about that. She said she wanted to help her and I said we already tried and were told to mind our own so let's mind our own.

My wife feels bad for her but I don't. Stupid is supposed to hurt and she was very stupid. It was an obvious scam. I don't mind helping people that had problems they couldn't prevent but don't like to fund stupid behavior. We've got people with health problems or job loss in our own families we can help so my wifes agreed that was a one time gift.

Bb

I worked for a brokerage firm where one the the VP got taken for over $250,000. Even after the head of our fraud department sat him down and told him what was happening he continued to send money.

I sent the OP article to my son who's spent 10 years in the fraud dept. of a large insurance company. He said that a full 25% of the online dating sites now are scams of some sort.

The sites themselves are all scams. They are all owned by the same group. They all do everything they can to make their communities feel active. They simulate activity by old, inactive accounts. That doesn’t even get into the scammers to whom they turn a blind eye, since it simulates activity.

The multitude of various scams continues to multiply.

I know an older woman, single, who lived with a good friend of mine for several years. They split up and she moved to New Jersey to be with a couple of family members. She'd been a Registered Nurse for many years and had a very nice banking account with Chase. Somehow, a scam artist got a whole bunch of personal information about her, and her Chase account.

He called her and used all her personal information to assure her he was legit and told her that Chase was getting ready to seize all checking and savings accounts for some dubious reason or another and she should close her accounts with Chase and send the money to a "safe" bank so she'd have her retirement secure.

She immediately went to her Chase bank, pulled out all her money despite Chase employees trying to dissuade her. She sent it to the "safe" bank and never heard from them again. Now, she has a small Social Security income and a small retirement income, and lives in a small travel trailer in a trailer park.

There is no shortage of gullible people who are easily manipulated by the scam artists.

L.W.