The Wicker Basket: How a Sweet Gesture Unmasked a Romantic Con Artist
The Wicker Basket: How a Sweet Gesture Unmasked a Romantic Con Artist
Fear that the person who knows your smallest routines might be lying is immediate and intimate: a wicker basket with six jars of peach preserves, hand-poured candles, and a card to "RHONDA" left on a car seat was the moment a romance scam became painfully real. How did months of careful attention turn into $11,400 in Zelle transfers and a woman sitting in a diner for six hours?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led from private messages in a cancer-survivor Facebook group to rapid, repeated money requests…
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