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| Heartless-----killed a Cleveland man after she went on a bad date with him. She robbed him and went on the lamb for two months before the feds found her. |
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
Garfield Heights Police nabbed a geeker who killed a man she met on social media. After a bad date, the geeker killed him in a botched robbery. The city of Garfield Heights is a part of the Cleveland, Ohio area. The geeker killed the man in December. She was caught today.
Remember folks, dating websites are fun and you could find your match. But I must caution you that you need to know that potential match. You must know that match, "day and night."
This horrible woman met a man on POF.com (Plenty of Fish). The woman and the man went on a date and had a good time. A few nights later, the man didn't hear from her.
After them two days, the horrible woman managed to break into the home of the man and tried to rob him. He put a fight and she put the work in him. She shot him with no remorse and left him for dead.
She took his cellphones, guns, a gold Honda Accord and a digital television before booking it.
His mother who was supposed to visit him at the home found her son lying unconscious and bleeding a the bottom of a basement stairway.
The victim identified as Meshach Cornwall was killed and this horrible woman is being held in the Cuyahoga County lockup. Cornwall grew up in the U.S. Virgin Islands before he settled in Cleveland.
POF is a part of InterActiveCorp, a group that owns Tinder, Match, Chemistry, HowAboutWe and BlackPeopleMeet.
The Garfield Heights Police quickly arrested this horrible woman and placed her in the lockup.
She is on a $3 million get out free card. She is also watched for the possibility of going out like a punk.
She had been on the run for nearly two months when authorities finally closed in Wednesday night when US Marshals arrested Graham at an address in the 19600 block of Fairmount Boulevard in Shaker Heights.
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| Pretty stupid. |
These two were examples of what the FBI warns about online dating. The FBI released a bulletin about the dangers of online dating.
These criminals—who also troll social media sites and chat rooms in search of romantic victims—usually claim to be Americans traveling or working abroad. In reality, they often live overseas. Their most common targets are women over 40 who are divorced, widowed, and/or disabled, but every age group and demographic is at risk.
Here’s how the scam usually works. You’re contacted online by someone who appears interested in you. He or she may have a profile you can read or a picture that is e-mailed to you. For weeks, even months, you may chat back and forth with one another, forming a connection. You may even be sent flowers or other gifts. But ultimately, it’s going to happen—your new-found “friend” is going to ask you for money.
So you send money...but rest assured the requests won’t stop there. There will be more hardships that only you can help alleviate with your financial gifts. He may also send you checks to cash since he’s out of the country and can’t cash them himself, or he may ask you to forward him a package.
So what really happened? You were targeted by criminals, probably based on personal information you uploaded on dating or social media sites. The pictures you were sent were most likely phony lifted from other websites. The profiles were fake as well, carefully crafted to match your interests.
In addition to losing your money to someone who had no intention of ever visiting you, you may also have unknowingly taken part in a money laundering scheme by cashing phony checks and sending the money overseas and by shipping stolen merchandise (the forwarded package).
In another recently reported dating extortion scam, victims usually met someone on an online dating site and then were asked to move the conversation to a particular social networking site, where the talk often turned intimate. Victims were later sent a link to a website where those conversations were posted, along with photos, their phone numbers, and claims that they were “cheaters.” In order to have that information removed, victims were told they could make a $99 payment—but there is no indication that the other side of the bargain was upheld.
While the FBI and other federal partners work some of these cases—in particular those with a large number of victims or large dollar losses and/or those involving organized criminal groups—many are investigated by local and state authorities.
We strongly recommend, however, that if you think you’ve been victimized by a dating scam or any other online scam, file a complaint with our Internet Crime Complaint Center (www.ic3.gov).
Before forwarding the complaints to the appropriate agencies, IC3 collates and analyzes the data—looking for common threads that could link complaints together and help identify the culprits. This helps keep everyone safe.
Here are some tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of an online dating scam.
Recognizing an Online Dating Scam Artist
Your online "date" may only be interested in your money if he or she:
- Presses you to leave the dating website you met through and to communicate using personal e-mail or instant messaging;
- Professes instant feelings of love;
- Sends you a photograph of himself or herself that looks like something from a glamour magazine;
- Claims to be from the U.S. and is traveling or working overseas;
- Makes plans to visit you but is then unable to do so because of a tragic event; or
- Asks for money for a variety of reasons (travel, medical emergencies, hotel bills, hospitals bills for child or other relative, visas or other official documents, losses from a financial setback or crime victimization).
Be safe and have great Valentine's Day!
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