In a twisted take on a romance scam, a Hilton Head Island woman lost $300 after fraudsters said her “boyfriend” had been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The 74-year-old woman on north-end Hilton Head called police Jan. 22, saying her supposed boyfriend had planned to fly from Auburn, Alabama, to the Lowcountry to meet up with her.
But after the boyfriend never showed up, she got a call from “people claiming to be ICE agents” who alleged he had been detained at the Atlanta airport. The so-called agents asked for money, presumably for the man’s release, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office incident report…