Seattle dating app scammer borrows phones, Venmos himself thousands

“The next day I started getting alerts from my bank – and that’s when I realized and immediately started panicking,” Coburn said.

To warn other people, he posted about the scam in a LGBTQ Facebook group – and that’s when the comments started coming in from others, all sharing the same story. One of the comments was from Peter Larkin.

“He pulled the same scam with me,” Larkin read from his Facebook comment.

Larkin met up with the date in Beacon Hill back in October, and scam is the same down to every detail.

First, the man didn’t look like photo in the dating app. But when another victim

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