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The Man Who Never Existed Drained Her Account: $43,000 in Thursdays
The Man Who Never Existed Drained Her Account: $43,000 in Thursdays
Fear that someone you trusted online is draining your life savings: Leon Whitley sent $43,000 over five months to a convincing but fake engineer who never existed. How did a routine Thursday lunch habit and careful paper ledgers fail to stop a network running out of Lagos and Accra that siphoned thousands with $400 urgencies and satellite-phone emergencies?
In this episode, we tell the episode’s sequence of events from the recovered envelope under Pelham Street Bridge to the pattern of Friday emergencies that led Leon to make…
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