She Said Goodbye to Grief - He Stole Her Identity and $6,800
She Said Goodbye to Grief - He Stole Her Identity and $6,800
Grief became the doorway he walked through: a young woman grieving her father wired $6,800 to a man she met in a veterans' grief forum, and the man’s profile used 30 photos - eight lifted from a real soldier’s Instagram - to pose as a staff sergeant. How did a careful, private person end up driving 45 minutes toward a staged breakdown and losing thousands to an identity built from harvested images?
In this episode, we tell how the contact began in a forum for families of veterans and moved from forum messages to texts and phone…
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