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It took less than three months for Jan Marshall’s online lover to convince her to give him $260,000. Or “lend” it, rather, since he was a British engineer with millions of pounds in his bank account and the (forged) statements to prove it. He would pay her back, he said, he was just having trouble on a job site in Dubai and needed a little bit to tide him over; his taxes were due, but he couldn’t access his account; he was robbed on his way to pay those taxes so needed to borrow the same amount again. After 72 days of contact, she never heard from him again.
A similar thing happened to Florida woman Debby Montgomery Johnson. She gave more than $1.7 million to a man she had been in a two-year online relationship with. Montgomery Johnson, a widowed mother of four, had been a paralegal, a US Air Force intelligence officer and a senior
