In all, feds say $1.6 million was taken by someone posing as a general stationed overseas who befriended women online.
The victims were from Rhode Island, Tennessee, N. Carolina, California, W. Virginia, Wisconsin, Arizona, Texas, Idaho & S. Dakota.It took just a few minutes of clever manipulation for scammers to clean out Marcas Miles' bank account using Zelle.A Texas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a romance scam in which women from across the nation were cheated out of a total of about $1.6 million by someone often pretending to be a U.S. Army general.
The women, often in their 70s and 80s and widowed or divorced, were persuaded to send cash or checks to addresses and companies controlled by Alabi, who lived in Richmond, Texas, near Houston. Federal agents who searched Alabi's cellphone found photographs and videos of packages containing cash and checks he had received from some victims, prosecutors said.
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