The Romance Scam That Hid Behind a Dead Food Critic's Notes
The Romance Scam That Hid Behind a Dead Food Critic's Notes
The chill of betrayal in this story is intimate: a leather journal pulled from reservoir mud and a food blogger who wired $11,000 to a man who did not exist. Sixty thousand monthly readers, ten months of online love, and a dead critic's prose repurposed-how did a fiction so carefully built finally unravel?
In this episode, we tell how Jean Watson, a 49-year-old food blogger from Millhaven, discovered that "Michael Hansen," her online lover, was assembled from the work of a deceased critic and a stolen persona. Follow the trail from a…
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