Los Angeles man caught up in online romance scam is robbed of $6,000 and his cellphone by woman he traveled to Colombia to meet after chatting to her online for three months
- Los Angeles resident Eduardo Villareal recently traveled to Santa Marta, Colombia, to meet a woman he met online three months ago for the first time
- But at their first meeting, the woman and a friend robbed him of $6,000
- Villareal has filed an incident report with the local prosecutor’s office, but no arrests have been made
A Los Angeles man fell victim to an online romance scam after Colombian woman he met online and traveled to meet robbed him of $6,000 and his cellphone.
Eduardo Villareal flew to the northern Caribbean coast city of Santa Marta before Christmas to meet the woman, who has not been identified, after chatting to her online for three months.
But his search for love unraveled when she and another female mugged him for his cash and cellphone at their first meeting.
‘I wanted to have a serious relationship, but I have been robbed,’ Villareal, who is originally from Mexico, told El Informador newspaper.
Villareal said that he organized the trip around the Christmas holidays with woman.
Eduardo Villareal, of Los Angeles, fell victim to a $6,000 robbery…
