A New York City man has been indicted for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a woman as part of a “romance scam” that started soon after they matched on the popular dating app Bumble.
Brandon Dae Up Kiehm allegedly stole approximately $272,000 from a 44-year-old woman he swiped right on, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. explained in a news release on Thursday, December 18. Kiehm, 45, has been charged with one count of second-degree grand larceny and has since been released on non-monetary bail.
Bragg shared that Kiehm met the woman online in 2019 and introduced himself under the name “Dae Up Lee Kim.” He claimed he “was a finance professional who had graduated from Stanford.”…