The Dead Soldier Who Became My Online Lover and Stole $3,200
The Dead Soldier Who Became My Online Lover and Stole $3,200
Fear that someone you trust online may be a carefully built lie: a dead National Guard sergeant’s photograph was used to create a fake lover who convinced a 22-year-old woman to send $3,200 - and no one can fully explain why a padlocked green box with his picture was wedged in a sycamore. Who constructed the deception, and what secret did that photograph carry?
In this episode, we present the timeline and people involved in the fraud that used Kevin Pruett’s image to create the alias Dean Simmons, following Marcia Bishop’s online…
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