According to an indictment filed in US federal court, Stergo met the man, who was living in Manhattan at the time, on an unspecified dating website about six or seven years ago. — AFP Relaxnews
A Holocaust survivor wanted a companion but had US$2.8mil (RM11.90mil) worth of his life savings stolen after meeting a woman on a dating website, federal prosecutors said.
Now a woman in Florida, who is accused of draining the 87-year-old’s bank accounts, has been arrested in what officials are calling a “romance” scam, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
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