She Sent Him $231,000: The Megan Bennett Romance Scam
She Sent Him $231,000: The Megan Bennett Romance Scam
Fear that a life of quiet routine can be dismantled by a single online stranger: a 62-year-old woman sent $231,000 over 18 months to a man claiming to build an orphanage, and investigators later found 112 wallet-size photos of children balanced on a fence post with the note "They are safe. She knows now." Who placed that envelope and what did it reveal about the scheme?
In this episode, we tell how a casual friendship on a faith-based social platform became a months-long transfer of savings, detail the discovery that prompted a criminal…
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