Man gives $200K to fake online girlfriend

Napierville, Illinois - Police in Illinois said a man was in disbelief when officers told him the online girlfriend to whom he had given $200,000 was not a real person. Naperville police said the 48-year-old man called investigators to say he believed the woman, with whom he had been involved in a 2 1/2-year online relationship, had been kidnapped in London. The man told police he had wired $200,000 to the woman during the relationship to different bank accounts in Nigeria, Malaysia, England and the United States. The ID card the woman showed the man was a sample driver’s license from Florida. The man was in disbelief when officers told him the woman was not real, police said.  More…