Posted on 05/21/2022 3:50:57 AM PDT by Cecily
He’s the Sunshine State swindler.
A Florida man is expected to plead guilty Thursday to bilking more than 20 women out of roughly $750,000 by posing as an accomplished surgeon on dating sites, according to the Miami Herald.
Brian Brainard Wedgeworth, 46, of Jacksonville, now faces up to 20 years behind bars for a slew of fraud and money laundering charges in federal court due to his fake dating app scheme.
Wedgeworth, who used more than a dozen aliases during his swindling spree, lured lovelorn women into his grip by claiming to be a single surgeon ready to settle down.
Tallahassee federal prosecutors said he turned scam dating into a dedicated career, canvassing countless sites and manically trawling for vulnerable marks.
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Every human activity is ripe for some kind of scam via the Internet.
His name is Brian. Middle name BRAINard??
Save your breath.
If any woman is going to fall for this scam, posting a memo to women, is going to have zero effect.
There are similar women who want guys to spend lots of money on them, without articles being written about them.
Thank goodness he didn’t pretend his specialty was working as a Gynecologist, one of the rare ones who made House Calls for a small additional fee.
This sleazy dude wuz gettin’ paid, and that’s all that counts in certain “communities”. Show me them Benjamins! In all other groups in fact, but less so and less often.
“Thank goodness he didn’t pretend his specialty was working as a Gynecologist, one of the rare ones who made House Calls for a small additional fee.”
I will do my best to forward your suggestion to him. For when he gets out of prison a few years from now. Your brain is in gear this Saturday morning!
Sounds like the "Door-to-Door Free Breast Examinations"-scam I had going for me during my sophomore year in high school.
Regards,
The are few forces in the universe more powerful that the desperation of a lonely 40 year old woman. Scams like this are always going to work.
The dude diddled 20 women for a paltry $750,000? Seriously, that amount wouldn’t have been worth the whining and headaches from that gaggle of silly women.
If it’s on the internet it must be true.
I advertise as a biologist. FREAKS OUT the babes when I tell them that they are women.
No sympathy here... they get what they get. Being stupid comes with a price.
Caveat emptor.
Caveat amator as well.
Lol! Why didn’t I think of that?
This reminds me of a sub-plot in one of the old Hardy Boys novels for kids. A fake doctor targets older single women, drugs them, and robs them. I think he also ran some kind of investment scam.
Dr. Grafton of “A Figure in Hiding.” He doesn’t drug or rob them, but he pulls off fake cures and skips town.
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