The FBI reports on the creep conman who scammed nuns.
There’s no limit to how low con artists will go to swindle victims out of their money—often targeting the elderly, the terminally ill, homeowners on the brink of losing their homes, even the lonely looking for companionship online.
Here’s another category of victims to add to that list: members of religious communities who spend their lives tending to the sick and the poor.
Earlier this month, a New Jersey man was sentenced to 18 years in prison.for defrauding members of the Puerto Rico-based Dominican Sisters of the Rosary of Fatima and others of more than a million dollars. He was also ordered to pay $1 million in restitution to his victims.
The scheme began back in 2009, when Adriano Sotomayor—born in Puerto Rico—obtained names and telephone numbers of certain Roman Catholic nuns and priests on the island…including an elderly nun from the Sisters of Fatima. Claiming to be a New Jersey priest, he called and said a deceased member of his parish community had named her the beneficiary of a $2.1 million estate. Sotomayor also told the nun that before receiving her funds, she had to wire money to the company handling the will—a New Jersey-based business called Flex Account—to cover various taxes, processing, and legal fees.
Of course, none of it was true.
You can read the rest of the piece via th below link:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/august/con-artist-who-scammed-nuns-gets-his-due
You can also read an earlier post on the con job on the nuns via the below link:
http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2013/02/he-will-answer-for-this-in-next-life-as.html
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