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A 73-year-old woman sold an apartment and gave her "lover from the USA" more than 4 million UAH: "I promised to get married"

The victim also took out many loans.

In Poland, a 73-year-old woman took out loans and sold her own apartment to help a social media stranger. In total, she transferred 500,000 zlotys (more than 4,200,000 hryvnia) to the scammer who promised to marry her.
Writes about it, The Polish magazine Onet

A 73-year-old Polish woman met a man who called himself an American. The story of the scam that affected a pensioner from the Parczew district of the Lublin Voivodeship began a year and a half ago. At that time, the 73-year-old began corresponding on social networks with a man who introduced himself to her as the American Jeff Jefferson.
The scammer wrote to her that he was a widower raising two children alone. He claimed to work on an oil rig in Norway. He tried to get a 73-year-old woman to fall in love with him: he spoke to her kindly and even promised to marry her. At some point, the “American” started asking the woman for money.
“After some time, during correspondence, he asked a 73-year-old woman for financial help because he was in a difficult situation and needed money to get out of detention. He also claimed that he had sick children who needed financial support for treatment. The victim, believing the promises of her lover, transferred the first money to him," said senior sergeant Evelina Semenyuk of the Parchev police.
The pensioner took out several loans from different banks totalling more than 125,000 zlotys. She also gave the scammer all her life savings and even sold her apartment at one point. In total, she gave her "beloved" 500,000 zlotys.
The woman only turned to the police a year and a half later because the "American" promised to give her the money back, which he never did.