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NE man claims he was scammed by his western IA girlfriend

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March 24th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

A Nebraska man claims his on-and-off again Iowa girlfriend scammed him out of $125,000 and now she won’t return his phone calls. The Daily NonPareil says the unidentified 59-year old victim filed a report with the Omaha Police Department on March 10th, a year after discovering he had been defrauded. He told police that the suspect, a Council Bluffs woman in her 30s, had promised to pay him back.

The alleged victim told police that he wrote checks of $6,000 and $6,500 as gifts to a woman that he met in a bar and had dated “a couple of times.” He later learned that the amount of the checks had been changed to $60,000 and $65,000. The police report said the woman has now blocked her telephone number. and the victim is unsure of her exact address.