The Dry Badge: How a Fake UN Widower Stole $211,000 from Angela
The Dry Badge: How a Fake UN Widower Stole $211,000 from Angela
Fear and disbelief: a dry UN lanyard snagged above a freezing Missouri river became Exhibit Seven and unravelled a romance scam that siphoned $211,000 from a grieving widow-how did one badge, never wet, point so precisely to a stranger's lies?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a January 14, 2019 discovery to the months of messages and wired money that preceded it, detailing how a fabricated United Nations identity on a faith-based dating site led to sustained financial loss and a fourteen-month silence before questions…
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