THE TINDER Swindler isn’t the only romance scammer charming women into falling in love and conning them out of their savings.
American nurse Virginia claims she fell in love with a man she met online and spoke, texted, and even FaceTimed with him every day – which is how he managed to get her to fork over her retirement savings for a bogus investment opportunity.
Virginia, an RN, claims that she met the man online on an unidentified dating app and planned for a future with him.
“I believed [he] loved me,” she wrote on a GoFundMe page. “We made life plans. We spoke of the unconditional love we had for each other.
“We talked about where we would spend our future holidays and celebrations with our families and friends. We either spoke, texted, or FaceTimed daily.”
With such frequent contact, she had no reason to believe this man wasn’t the real deal.
So when she discussed getting ready to retire and he suggested a way to get more out of her 401(k) retirement savings, she said she trusted his advice.
“He told me if I put my retirement money into a high yield cryptocurrency account, I could make the additional funds I would need for retirement in a few months,” she wrote.
“So, I did. I agreed to place my 401(k) and my inheritance into the account that he set up online for me. And it…
