Yonkers, NY (WABC) — A New York father is dead and his family believes it’s all because he was sucked into an international romance and money scheme (419), causing him to lose everything and even steal from relatives.
“I saw him sitting in a chair with a bullet in his head,” Peter Circelli said.
Circelli believes his father, Al, felt he had no way out, committing suicide in the living room of his Yonkers home after realizing a romance to riches fantasy he’d bought into was a scam.
It was only after Peter started going thru his father’s belongings that the son discovered his dad’s shocking secret, starting with a pile of western union money transfers to the country of Ghana, a notorious location for romance scams.
“They say Ghana, $300. Ghana, $200,” he explained. “We’ve added them all up and they come to the sum of $50,000.” On Circelli’s laptop, his son discovered email photos and messages supposedly from a woman calling herself Aisha, who promised to come here and start a new life, giving the divorced retired businessman a future and a fortune.
“She had money in a bank and was going to transfer the money to him,” Circelli said.
Source: GhanaWeb
