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The Orange Card at Tallow Pond: How a Match Became $61,000 Lost

The Orange Card at Tallow Pond: How a Match Became $61,000 Lost

Fear of being fooled and the slow burn of betrayal: a Midwest man lost more than $61,000 after a dating-app romance spun into a months-long financial trap, and an orange offshore certification card turned up in a frozen pond a year later - how did a Nordvik Energy badge from an Indianapolis desk end up in Tallow Pond, and who built the machinery that defeated his caution?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the first message on a dating app through the escalating requests for funds and the discovery that exposed the…

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