Akron man out $200,000 after romance ruse

They never met in person, but the two communicated through apps and text messaging for several months. The more they chatted the stronger Derrick's feelings grew. He was convinced he had met his soulmate.But then, the woman he met online began asking for money— a lot of it— to support several business ventures, promising that Derrick, 42, would be a part of the businesses and reap the benefits of them.

"It's unfortunate. It's terrible. It happens very frequently," said Detective Troy Looney from Akron's financial crimes division. "Sometimes we can locate the metadata associated with those photos or maybe the latitude and longitude, but it gets more into the cybersecurity and forensics areas," Looney said.

"You want to freeze your credit— your credit reports— put fraud alerts in place with the three credit bureaus, and then again, if things just seem too good to be true, avoid, or call the police department immediately," Looney said.Derrick said he's heartbroken and devastated over all of the money he lost. He hopes his warning will spare others from becoming a sweetheart victim.

Yea I'd say this dude got scammed bigtime. $100k in $btc too. That should of been a huge red flag

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