Man Gave $200,000 to Fake Online Girlfriend

NAPERVILLE, Ill., Feb. 25 (UPI) — Police in Illinois said a man “was in disbelief” when officers told him the online girlfriend to whom he had given $200,000 was not a real person.

Naperville police said the 48-year-old man called investigators Wednesday to say he believed the woman, with whom he had been involved in a 2 1/2-year online relationship, had been kidnapped in London, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday.

The man told police he had wired $200,000 to the woman during the relationship to different bank accounts in Nigeria, Malaysia, England and the United States.

Investigators said the ID card the woman showed the man was a sample driver’s license from Florida.

The man “was in disbelief” when officers told him the woman was not real, police said.

Published: Feb. 25, 2011 at 2:32 PM

Source: UPI

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