Man Sends $200,000 To His Fake Facebook Girlfriend
...Just when people started to come around to the idea that they could not—and would not—become multimillionaires by winning a lottery online or helping a Nigerian prince to transport money into the U.S., a new online scam has apparently popped up and claimed one of its first victims. It seems crazy (because, well, it is crazy!) but a man from Illinois was recently duped out of $200,000 by someone posing as his girlfriend on Facebook. And the crazier part is that it wasn’t actually the first time he’d sent her money, either. He’d also wired smaller amounts of cash to bank accounts in the U.S., England, Malaysia and—yes—even Nigeria over the course of the last two months
