A Colorado mother and daughter are accused in an internet dating scam spanning 40 countries, in which fake soldiers started relationships with women, then asked them for money, CBS Denver reported.
An indictment from the Colorado Attorney General accuses Tracy and Karen Vasseur of Adams County of being part of a "Nigerian internet romance scam" involving people pretending to be military members serving in Afghanistan.
Tracy, 41, and her mother, Karen, 73, live in Brighton. They allegedly tricked women into relationships and accepted payments via wire over a three-year period.
Prosecutors said six of their victims live in Colorado. Investigators believe there are 374 victims in all, from 41 countries including the United States, CBS Denver reported.
The indictment claims the mother-and-daughter scammers took a percentage of the stolen money and then wired the remaining money to associates in Nigeria.
They allegedly established 20 personal and business bank accounts at 11 local banks for the purposes of laundering stolen money. The business was listed under the name A-Team Distributions Inc. and KKJ Services.
As part of the scheme, Tracy also allegedly used her own 16-year-old daughter to fraudulently receive stolen money and then wire it to Nigeria.
According to CBS Denver, Tracy Vasseur faces up to 205 years in prison if convicted on all counts, and her mother faces up to 172 years behind bars.
Source: CBS News
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ReplyDeletesigh ......I was hoping to get to the end and read that it had nothing to do with nigerians until i saw ****then wired the remaining money to associates in Nigeria.***********
SHAME SHAME , as always Nigerians will be associated with 419. As for these two ugly oyibo women , they will be locked up for a long time.
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that's tha first thing that came to my mind ...double tragedy, they didn't get to enjoy the loot and their dead body go serve plenty deacdes of prison sentence. How bad does it get?
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Terrible wat one wil do 4 money mother and daughter,i dnt tink they ll leav dat jail alive.pathetic!
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ReplyDeletelolz..but dey will die in jail na with dose years that might be given to them....meanwhile i met a soldier online too and told me he's in afghanistan..when he realise say i no get money..he stopped mailin me..
ReplyDeleteThis is rubbish..nothing to do with Nigeria..and Russia pardon me..started all this internet dating fraud..or internet brides!!..of course yahoo yahoo boys took it to another level..
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ReplyDeleteIts a pity , But they are not the first...
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ReplyDeleteso how does this tie up to nigerian internet romance.the main people are americans.this oyinbo people will sha look for anyway to discredit us.i am positive that nigeria isnt the only country they wired money to.
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