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Oklahoma woman charged with laundering 1.5M from elderly women in online romance scam
Kurt'CyberGuy' Knutsson joins'Fox & Friends' to warn about a disturbing new scam where criminals use AI to clone the voices of loved ones and trick victims into sending money. Charges have been filed against an Oklahoma woman who is being accused of laundering nearly 1.5 million in funds obtained through online romance scams, targeting elderly women. Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced that Christine Joan Echohawk, 53, was arrested Monday, and is accused of laundering money from out-of-state victims between Sept. 30, 2024, and Dec. 26, 2024. Officials said that all the victims were women between the ages of 64 and 79. The victims believed they were sending money to a male subject whom they thought they were in an online relationship with, according to a news release from Drummond's office.
Dallas County man gets 3 years for $1.2M online romance scam
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A Texas man who was part of a romance scam that bilked a Missouri woman out of $1.2 million was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in federal prison and ordered to repay the money. Rotimi Oladimeji, 38, of Richardson, Texas, was sentenced one year after he pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney's office in St. Louis said in a news release. Oladimeji and two others spotted the victim on the "Silver Singles" online dating site, prosecutors said.
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