The woman, Nicole Hutchinson, said she was hoping to help her family by investing in crypto with the help of a man she met on the popular dating site Hinge. The man was actually a professional scammer believed to have had a hand in ripping off close to $20 million from naive investors.
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Tennessee Woman Falls Victim to Crypto-romance Grift, Loses Inheritance
A Tennessee woman reported losing $390,000 in an online dating-crypto scam likely based somewhere in Asia. So reports CBS News.
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