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Aus woman loses 300,000 dollars in online romance fraud
Updated On: 02 November, 2015 02:22 PM IST | | PTI
<p>In an online romance fraud, an Australian woman lost 300,000 dollars after she fell in love with a fake interior designer on Facebook calling himself Allan McCarty</p>
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Melbourne: In an online romance fraud, an Australian woman lost 300,000 dollars after she fell in love with a fake interior designer on Facebook calling himself Allan McCarty.
Acting Consumer Protection Commissioner Gary Newcombe said Nigerian criminals used Facebook profiles along with a business website to create McCarty, an interior designer originally from Scotland but now living in Australia.
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