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.

The dumbass never even got laid........

He did get screwed.

😂😂

Well, as I read this thread, was thinking about the proverbial Nigerian Prince. He showed up pretty quick.

DF

Church friend nearly got taken for a ride with an Internet "friend". Retired, single, never married. Suddenly madly in love with a woman he met online who professed to be a devout Christian. Family was throwing up warning flags all around. He wouldn't listen. Not sure what happened. But, fortunately, he saw the light before it was too late...

Can never tell who will take the bait. He was one I never would have suspected to get involved in a scam. But, fell hook, line, and sinker.

He got what was befitting him!!

Lol she looks like a bulldog not to mention she could be that congresswoman from Michigan the Muslim country hater he deserves everything he's off

Same dumb fùcks paying the "IRS" with Walmart gift cards. Theres a YouTube channel about people that get romance scammed and it's astounding how stupid the people are.

I have an uncle who's never made a good decision in his life. He signed over everything he had to some gal from his church so she'd marry him. She was gone before the ink dried on the paperwork and he's is living out his last days as a pauper in a nursing home.

My girlfriend owns 5 rental houses. Nice suburban houses, they rent for $2,200/mo and up. We used to advertise in Craigslist. Every time we ran and ad, we would get this:

"My dearest Sir: My beloved daughter and I are moving to the USA in one month's time and would delight to inhabit your house. We wish to send you a Bank Cheque of $9,400, which covers one month rent and the deposit. Please take this cheque to the bank, cash it, and my associate will come by in two day's time to pick up the excess $5,000 in cash, these funds will cover our moving costs."

I got that same email 2 dozen times over the years. The Nigerian scammers send out a hundred of these emails every week, obviously there are landlords who fall for it.

What became of our member that met some lovely lady down in Latin America and was convinced she was in love with him?

I don't remember all the particulars but she found him wandering around and offered to guide him and he fell in love. He was obviously being taken for a bunch of money.

I can't remember his handle here on the 24HCF

but he did not get kissed

handle....nice play on words....bob

Had a guy who used to work for me who found an internet girlfriend. He showed me her pictures and I even found her on an internet scam advisory website. To no avail. Same story. Emptied his 401k and poof, gone. Peeps thinking they’re gonna find love take stoopid risks. He was a young guy so hopefully he learned something and recovered. The ones I truly feel sorry for are the old widows.

Loneliness and a need for companionship causes seemingly intelligent people to do some rather stupid things.

How lonely does a person have to be to ignore all advice and warning signs?

Surely you’re not referencing Irving?

Seems like he is doing pretty well with her.

Post some pics of your warhog?

From what I gathered here. Get a dog for a companion. Just buy hookers. 🤔

The name Irving doesn't ring a bell. I think this dude found his tour guide down in Panama and it didn't sound good for him. I figured that by now that affair had blown up in his face.

Don't know what a warhog is.

This will be the next big thing:

https://www.virtualgf.chat/create

Have at “her”. At least you’ll know up front it’s not some dude in nigeria.

Dad was sharp and loved exploring newer technologies but still needed me (I have worked in IT for 30+ years) to fix or set things up. I got things working 100% of the time for him including a printer he said wouldn't work. . I installed new drivers and voila- working like a champ. Few weeks later he calls upset saying Microsoft called him saying he had a virus etc.. I said- uhh Dad, his guy have an accent? He then said they told him I installed his printer wrong ...so he was mad at me because weeks later, while surfing somewhere he shouldn't have been- he got that cheesy virus alert.

When my wife was updating her antivirus it failed and I came downstairs to see someone remote controlling her pc. No reason for that or for them to be in the directories they were in. I turned it off immediately while the accented rep on the phone was screaming at me.

For all here - Restore Points are the best friend a Windows user can have. ( Linux users to ID themselves in 3...2...)

I HATE THIEVES