BISMARCK, N.D. (KXNET) — Two Maryland men have been sentenced, and a third woman has been indicted after participating in a romance fraud scheme that targeted multiple elderly women — including one in New Town. According to a press release from the United States Attorney's Office, during the operation, foreign actors created online accounts pretending to be high-ranking members of the U.S. military who were deployed overseas. They would then rea…

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Maryland man sentenced after committing romance fraud on New Town woman

Several women in North Dakota lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to the scheme, according to court documents.

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Men sentenced in North Dakota for romance fraud scheme where fake military men targeted elderly women

A Maryland man was sentenced Tuesday to more than two years in federal prison and ordered to pay back $180,000 for his role in a romance fraud scheme that targeted an elderly woman in North Dakota. Chinedu Nwafor, 42, of Bowie, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in North Dakota. The statement detailed court documents that said “foreign actors” would c…

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Man gets 2 years in prison for scamming elderly North Dakota woman out of $150K

The scammers posed as United States military members, said they were deployed to a foreign country, and created fake social media or internet profiles.

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