A North Carolina woman was looking for love in all the right places but ended up with a broken heart and an empty bank account. She’s sharing her story with ABC11 Troubleshooter in hopes of keeping this from happening to anyone else.
“I’ve lost it all for being so stupid and foolish,” Nancy Newcomer says as she tries to pick up the pieces financially and emotionally after falling for a Romance scam.
The Youngsville woman adds, “I worked all my life for this and he with nothing took everything I ever worked for I have nothing.” This all started when Newcomer was on Facebook and she thought she met a celebrity and had a connection.
“He started to get pretty friendly right off the bat,” Newcomer says she thought she was talking with Ahn Hyo-seop also known as Paul Ahn, a famous actor in a K-Pop drama series that she liked. “That’s who I thought, honest to God, thought I was speaking with him,” Newcome said.
The romance quickly took off. Newcomer said Ahn told her he wanted to meet up with her and she was excited. She got emails that claimed to be from the pop star’s business manager. Newcomer said, “He told me if you want to meet with him, there’s a reservation fee of $18,500 and I thought, oh my God, where in the world am I going to get that?”