ORLANDO, Fla. (NewsNation Now) — A Florida woman is out $100,000 after she was tricked by an online dating scammer.
Rebecca D’Antonio said she didn’t think much of joining a dating site — and didn’t really plan to use it, either — until she met “Matthew.”
“A friend of mine had decided that she was going to try online dating,” said D’Antonio. “And she had never done [online dating] before. And since I hadn’t been in a relationship in a while I thought, ‘Well, this feels like a new thing. Let me give it a shot.”
She said prior to signing up for OkCupid, she had never heard of romance scams. She said she trusted the app because she has friends who met their significant others on there. She thought she was being careful by being open in her profile about herself and what she was looking for in a relationship.
“I’m going to basically put in my profile that this is the box that I come in. This is what I expect in a relationship and this is what I won’t put up with in a relationship,” she said.
What D’Antonio didn’t realize until it was too late, was that she believes she may have been giving scammers a “road map” for ways to take advantage of her. She disclosed that she loved children but is unable to have any of her own.
That’s when she virtually met Matthew.
He was, supposedly, a single father of a young son and his wife had…
