71-year-old Indiana man loses $80K in romance scam by overseas con artist

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WHNT 19 News - Posted 8:41 am, October 14, 2018, by Tribune Media Wire, Updated at 08:43AM, October 14, 2018 - A 71-year-old man looking for a relationship wound up losing tens of thousands of dollars to a con artist after falling prey to an online romance scam, according to police. After meeting a stranger on Facebook, the Indianapolis man developed a nine-month friendship with someone in Germany, only to realize he’d fallen victim to what police say is one of the most common cons in the country. The victim told police that, all told, he wired $80,000 to the social media scammer. Read more @ https://whnt.com/2018/10/14/71-year-old ... on-artist/