A Kelowna, B.C., man was snared in an online scheme that traded false friendship for funds, RCMP said.
The man contacted police July 7, explaining that he’d made friends with who he believed to be a woman living in Ontario then, later, an unnamed foreign country.
“The female asked to borrow money to cover debts and unexpected expenses,” RCMP said in a press release.
“The Kelowna man sent a significant amount of money to assist the woman. The victim requested to be repaid and offered the woman to come to Canada. The woman refused and ended the relationship without returning the ‘borrowed’ money.”
“If the basis of the relationship is sending money to help out a…
