Senior gives man she’s never met more than $50,000

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A woman from Queens County has given well over $50,000 to a man she communicated with on a dating site for seniors, but whom she has never met.

The information was reported to council last week in the monthly report by Kim Masland, senior safety co-ordinator for the Region of Queens Municipality.

Masland said she had received a call from a distraught family member who believed the woman forwarded $5,000 to a man on a dating site.

Masland said she contacted the senior and the bank the senior dealt with.

“I met with the senior who truly believes the man loves her and would be coming for Christmas, which was actually only one day away,” Masland wrote in her report.

“At the end of our conversation I discovered she had sent well in excess of $50,000 to a man she had never met but believes they will be together.”

Masland said she continues to work with the woman.

Masland also reported a second online dating scam. She said she received a call from a 73-year-old woman who had been communicating with a man who presented himself as 75 and from New Zealand.

“After much time he asked for her telephone number,” Masland reported.

“The man started to text her. He then called her and she immediately realized he was very young and spoke with a Caribbean accent.”

The woman ended contact with the man, without losing any money, but reported the incident to the seniors safety coordinator to warn others.