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Woman Lost Life Savings to Romance Fraudsters Who Pretended to Be Keanu Reeves
Local12 ^ | Sun, December 29th 2024

Posted on 01/02/2025 5:29:44 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: Telepathic Intruder

Once Goodson was out of money ............. she realized she’d been tricked.

That was her first clue.


I remember a story about an old woman falling for some sort of get-rich-quick scam. The strangest thing was she said she realized at one point it was a scam but she “felt invested in it.”


41 posted on 01/02/2025 7:25:58 PM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Flaming Conservative

very dumb. But how low does someone have to be to do this to someone else? It’s evil.


42 posted on 01/02/2025 7:28:54 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Chode

That’s her?

So sad...I bet she was pretty when young.


43 posted on 01/02/2025 7:29:10 PM PST by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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To: nickcarraway

Years ago I had an elderly aunt - a healthy, intelligent, active woman for her age - that fell in with a guy that claimed he used to play in the NFL. This was before the internet, so verification of such was a lot harder, but I looked him up in an NFL reference book at the library and he wasn’t in it. I told her that but it didn’t matter - she was a widow and was flattered by the attention. He eventually took all she had and disappeared. She had a stroke and died soon afterward. I know her sons tried to get an investigation started but I lost contact so never found out if they were successful. She was far from stupid but still got taken by a good line of bull.


44 posted on 01/02/2025 7:29:57 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: imabadboy99

There are a lot of evil people in the world; always have been. Hopefully, there are fewer evil than good.


45 posted on 01/02/2025 7:34:27 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Track9

My first thought. Or if it did happen, hoping the real Reeves hears about it and helps her $$.


46 posted on 01/02/2025 7:36:20 PM PST by StayoutdaBushesWay (Heb 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see)
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To: Flaming Conservative

I know a guy, 72, for at least 2-3 years he kept telling how he was gonna have a date with a famous female racecar driver, a famous female golfer, a not-so-famous female actress.....

He’d save up credits for dinner 🍽️🍴 for when one of them was going to fly into town....none of it ever happened, of course.

Of course they were ALL scammers.

We kept trying to tell him. He wouldn’t listen. Eventually he has to go to the 🏦 🏦 🏦 bank to straighten out his account (I don’t know the details).

Now he has a gal. She was after me for about a week until she found out that I have no money LOL (ouch) 🤕🤕🤕.

Now she appears to have him and controls him significantly. Daily.

There’s more to the story but I can’t mention it because it would reveal his last name. His father was portrayed in an Unsolved Mysteries. He told me about it last year. I eventually found the episode and watched it. But again, it would reveal the last name, so.... can’t link it.


47 posted on 01/02/2025 7:39:11 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

Does stupidity come with age?


48 posted on 01/02/2025 7:42:31 PM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: Aria

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49 posted on 01/02/2025 7:43:30 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

He told her that if the bus went under 50 mph it would explode?

I applied for a job through an agency in the wake of the 2008 crash.

About 8 months later I get an email ostensibly from the recruiter that she’s trapped in Mexico or South America and needed cash to get back to the United States.

The recruiter was real but somebody hijacked her name.


50 posted on 01/02/2025 7:44:13 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: roving

Do we HAVE to bring up my dating life?

C’mon man!!


51 posted on 01/02/2025 7:45:20 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: LukeL

LOL 😂😂😂😂

You’re dating her too?

She told ME she was breaking up with Kelce!!!


52 posted on 01/02/2025 7:51:49 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ConservativeMind

(Ladies, a hot Hollywood hunk is not interested in you.)

You’re smashing a lot of dreams now

(Nor is a beautiful Hollywood girl)

C’mon man!!!


53 posted on 01/02/2025 7:53:48 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris; LukeL; gundog

I convinced a lady that I was her grandson and to send me checks. She sent me 20 checks for 50 cents and a dollar. And then they all bounced!


54 posted on 01/02/2025 7:55:33 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

Loneliness isn’t the worst thing she struggles with-she is also a special kind of stupid and misinformed...


55 posted on 01/02/2025 8:00:22 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: BlackVeil

That is what I like about Jessica Alba as she never asks for cash - only a few bitcoin now and then. Someday we’ll meet and she says my wife will not know.


56 posted on 01/02/2025 8:01:34 PM PST by posterchild
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To: Larry Lucido

I’ve had a few grandsons call that i didn’t know I had. I ask them lots of questions before I tell them I don’t remember them.


57 posted on 01/02/2025 8:03:09 PM PST by posterchild
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To: SaveFerris

lol


58 posted on 01/02/2025 8:07:46 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: posterchild

Someone called Mom when sh was about 95 saying that her grandson had been arrested, was in jail, and needed money to get out.

She said, “My grandson never would be in jail!” Then she hung up on the caller


59 posted on 01/02/2025 8:11:52 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: nickcarraway

I only get Ukrainian women who want to meet my credit card.


60 posted on 01/02/2025 8:16:56 PM PST by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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