An area man was scammed out of $60,000 after a woman told him she needed to marry him to get access to $80 million.
The man reported to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday that he wired $60,000 to a law firm in France to pay for legal fees. The man reported that a woman had illegally withdrawn the money, according to a report from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.
He told police he was working with an attorney he had never met and entered into a marriage that he didn’t believe had been legalized with a woman he had never met in Ireland, the report said.
The woman told him she needed to be married to have access to $80 million she had in a bank account. She also told the man he needed to wire $60,000 to cover part of the fee to withdraw the millions. A marriage certificate was mailed to him, but he believed it may not have been valid, the report said.
The bank that conducted the wire transfer made efforts to recall the transfer, according to the report.
