If someone is offering money for nothing, there’s probably a catch, right? In this new twist on a romance scam, a con artist offers to become your “sugar momma” (or “sugar daddy”) and pay your bills. But according to recent BBB Scam Tracker reports, it’s really a way to trick victims out of money.
Scammers are sending people messages offering to pay you a weekly allowance of several hundred dollars for your affections. However, when they send you the first “weekly allowance” they ask you to send some of it to a friend of theirs who needs help. If you send that “friend” money, you have just been scammed.
One victim reported that the con artist wanted him to donate several thousand dollars of the money he received to an “orphanage.” Of course, the check or bank transfer was fake, and the “orphanage” was really just the scammer – or an associate – using a different name.