Prosecutors say Brian Wedgeworth had been defrauding women online for two decades, and his confession on Thursday accounts for only some of his scam victims.
ATLANTA — The infamous “Casanova Scammer” admitted under oath Thursday that he conned his way into the lives and bank accounts of dozens of women he met online, and then ran off with more than a million dollars of their money before he was caught.
His name is Brian Wedgeworth, and he duped all those women during a four-and-a-half-month period immediately after he was released from a Georgia prison where he had served time for victimizing a DeKalb County woman the same way.
Prosecutors say Wedgeworth began scamming women online more than 20 years ago, and has been in and out of prisons during that time, but continued to victimize countless women.
So, for years, women across the country have been going online, trying to warn everyone to stay away from Wedgeworth whenever he was popping up on dating apps.
Takesia Johnson had not seen those warnings when she met Wedgeworth on her dating app five years ago.
“He gave me his phone number,” Johnson told 11Alive’s sister station in Jacksonville, Florida, First Coast News, in 2017. “He was, like, ‘Well, can you…
